... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power. — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories.” — Amaya Ellman Copy Share Image
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
In the beginning, passion and pain were not created together with the body; nor forgetfulness and ignorance together with the soul; nor… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
“Where there is flagrant disavowal of the truths essential to the gospel, where there is persistent and high-handed disobedience to the commands… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
...we are not without hope of salvation, nor is it at all the right time for us to despair. All our life… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future.… — ElRay L. Christiansen Copy Share Image
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken;… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The cost of obedience is nothing compared to the cost of disobedience.. — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts. — Antonio Negri Copy Share Image
