Burning Quote by Barbara Dana

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

— Anonymous

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

— Paulo Coelho

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within…

— Noam Chomsky

I didn't know how I was going to deal with 'Disobedience' because it takes place in such a specific and often secretive world.

— Sebastian Lelio

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it

— Tullian Tchividjian

I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just…

— Thomas Jefferson

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is…

— Al Gore

There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general…

— Conrad Black

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

— Barbara Deming

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages…

— Frederic Bastiat

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within…

— Noam Chomsky