Authority Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

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 act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on…

— Tom Tancredo

To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

— Marvin Ammori

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

— William Kunstler

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune…

— Hannah Arendt

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

— Mahatma Gandhi