I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
A prominent judge was asked what we, as citizens of the countries of the world, could do to reduce crime and disobedience… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public… — Barbara Dana Copy Share Image
So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully.… — Ebenezer Erskine Copy Share Image
Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Disobedience is one of the few tricks you have left to hang on to the idea that you continue to exist distinctively… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“You are only able really to refuse and flee, though, when you recognize your power. Those living under the weight of a… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
“Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Satan is ever seeking to inject that poison into our hearts to distrust God's goodness, especially in connection with his commandments. That… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If you do not come, your brothers will deliver the bodies of three dead children to your apartment at dawn. Children who… — Anne Malcom Copy Share Image
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If we have the means and the capability to care for orphaned and vulnerable children, yet fail to do so, we are… — Johnny Carr Copy Share Image
When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology. — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image