A Quote by Paulo Coelho

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

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Brazilian - Novelist
Born: August 24, 1947

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Oscar Wilde

The state says: "Well, in order for it to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to follow these rules." They put us in "free-speech zones"; they say you can only do it at this time, and in this way, and you can't interrupt the functioning of the government. They limit the impact that civil disobedience can achieve. We have to remember that civil disobedience must be disobedience if it's to be effective.

Edward Snowden

I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don't know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don't have those for engineering or making beats. I don't know how to use a sampler well. I don't know how to use any of these things.

Ty Segall

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

Oscar Wilde

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

Robert Anton Wilson

Anyone who's an executive at a record label does not understand what the Internet is, how it works, how people use it, how fans and consumers interact - no idea. I'm surprised they know how to use e-mail.

Trent Reznor

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

Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.

Edward Norton

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

Howard Zinn

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Alan Cohen

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I bought a crystal ball, and I wanted to use it, but I didn't know how, and I wouldn't use it until I developed a technique to use it that was truthful.

Michael Moschen

Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it.

Noam Chomsky

By the virtue of modesty the devout person governs all his exterior acts. With good reason, then, does St. Paul recommend this virtue to all and declare how necessary it is and as if this were not enough he considers that this virtue should be obvious to all.

Pio of Pietrelcina

Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary