Disobedience Quotes · Page 4

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

— Hermann Graf Keyserling

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.

— Philip Hart

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the…

— Alphonsus Liguori

“[...] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.”

— Kathy Acker

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

— Edward R. Murrow

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

— Kelly Ayotte

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy…

— Anonymous

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“A God who punishes disobedience will teach us to obey and endure when it would be holy to protest and righteous to…

— Rebecca Ann Parker

Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates…

— Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil…

— Al Gore

“There is no more deadly peril than disobedience; States are devoured by it, homes laid in ruins, Armies defeated, victory turned to…

— Sophocles

Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen,…

— Tommy Lee Jones

It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known…

— Winston Churchill

In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they…

— Fatima Bhutto

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't…

— Noam Chomsky

Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake…

— Terry Tempest Williams

How can it be other than right to worship the Body of the Lord, all-holy and all-reverend as it is, announced as…

— John of Kronstadt

It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional…

— B. R. Ambedkar

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Disobedience is as much a proof of authority as obedience. You cannot rebel without acknowledging a government. You cannot be a heretic…

— Tiffany Reisz

Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences…

— Richard G. Scott

You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience

— Edwin Louis Cole

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

— Joshua Wong

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

— Paulo Coelho

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

— William Kunstler

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

— Gail Bradbrook

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

— Howard Zinn