Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Man's disobedience) brought into this World a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's Harbinger — John Milton Copy Share Image
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You… — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always,… — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to… — Azadeh Moaveni Copy Share Image
“How bold we are. We shy from a flame that licks the tip of our finger for a fraction of a second,… — Laurence B. Brown Copy Share Image
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and… — Maeve Brennan Copy Share Image
There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“...This is the arena in which a spiritualized disobedience means most. It doesn't mean a second New Deal, another massive bureaucratic attack… — Curtis White Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both inperson and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The one who wants satsang (company of the eternal), his satsang is not missed.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience. — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
