Disobedience Quotes · Page 8

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The only alternative to soul winning is disobedience to Christ.

— Curtis Hutson

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

— Ambrose Bierce

Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Fear of man is always part of a triad that includes unbelief and disobedience.”

— Edward T. Welch

Disobedience of any kind, on any level, is sin.

— Innah Delos Angeles

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San…

— Rosie O'Donnell

Dont blame others to justify your sin of disobedience! We should remember, God will never accept our service after our disobedience.

— Anonymous

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development…

— Erich Fromm

Ask me this. If you whip a puppy for disobedience does it teach it never to do it again? And to love…

— ChezMacNez

We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other…

— Philip Roth

“[Jesus] must have control not only in the big things, but in the little things also; not only over what we do,…

— David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by…

— Haifaa al-Mansour

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right,…

— Jimmy Fallon

So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history…

— Charlton Heston

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that…

— Edwidge Danticat

A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way…

— Dale Jamieson

The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing…

— Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Satyagraha is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone of everybody's life and that we must…

— Arun Manilal Gandhi

“Before you die, give some serious thought to vowing holy disobedience whenever necessary. Discerning and knowing why one would choose to disobey…

— Karol Jackowski

Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and…

— Maeve Brennan

The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and…

— Colman McCarthy

Satyagraha means insistence on what one knows to be the truth. The insistence implies the exercise of free will as the need…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable.

— Charles Eisenstein

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss…

— John Milton

There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

— Howard Zinn

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.

— Marvin Ammori

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a…

— Mahatma Gandhi