Civil disobedience Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey…

— Robert Kennedy

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.

— Terry Pratchett

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may…

— John Ruskin

Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.

— Joseph Hertz

“...[T]he sublimity and intrinsic dignity of the command in duty are so much the more evident, the less the subjective impulses favor it and…

— Immanuel Kant

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

— Austin O'Malley

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

— Denis Diderot

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

— John Ruskin

The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot be abandoned…

— Ludwig von Mises