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Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand
Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation? — Pat Buchanan
So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their esoteric meaning, that… — H. P. Blavatsky
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order… — John Stott
This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future. Yet it was… — ElRay L. Christiansen
Disobedience was man's Original Virtue. — Robert Anton Wilson
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton
There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating… — Edwidge Danticat
Disobedience is the vehicle of progress. — John McAfee
Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped… — Sufyan al-Thawri
By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself,… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The… — Timothy Keller
It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator. — Dylan Moran
Become goddesses of disobedience. — Naomi Wolf
And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a challenge that's never… — Oriana Fallaci
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI. — Martin Sheen
Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness… — John Tillotson
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own… — Hannah Arendt
I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of… — Joan Baez
The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of… — Margaret Fuller
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. — Constance Baker Motley
Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you… — Wendell Phillips
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only… — Oscar Romero

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