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The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will… — Peace Pilgrim
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to… — Harold B. Lee
I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a… — Barbara Dana
I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and… — Rick Santorum
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite… — Al Gore
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. — Edwin Louis Cole
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. — Oriana Fallaci
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians. — Joyce Meyer
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say,… — Henry David Thoreau
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau
Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden… — Jorge Luis Borges
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through… — Oscar Wilde
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and… — Henry David Thoreau
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of… — Marcus Buckingham
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. — Howard Zinn
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the… — D. A. Carson
You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think. — Guillermo del Toro
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. — Aristotle
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of… — Oscar Wilde
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of… — Howard Zinn
Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till… — John Milton
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Howard Zinn

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