Authority Quote by Antonio Negri

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the initial moment…

— Safak Pavey

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image…

— Edward Snowden

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

— Sivananda

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

— Innah Delos Angeles

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.”

— Oscar Wilde

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to…

— Jane Austen

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

— Gail Bradbrook

Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation…

— Robert Anton Wilson