Advantage Quote by Ali ibn Abi Talib

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good…

— Noam Chomsky

The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established…

— Pope Leo XII

The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent…

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Marvin Ammori

“Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort to care…

— John R. Dallas Jr

“The maintenance of high standards of behavior in nonviolent action is necessary at all stages of the conflict.”

— Gene Sharp

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

— Dalai Lama

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

— George W. Bush

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

— John Hall