Top 1200 Civil Disobedience Quotes & Sayings

Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

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

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is part of our nation's history and has redirected our country in many instances, from the feminist movement to the Civil Rights movement and beyond.

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

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.

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

If Snowden really claims that his actions amounted to genuine civil disobedience, he should go to some English language bookstore in Moscow and get a copy of Henry David Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience'.

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

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

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

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 leaders . . . . and millions have been killed because of this obedience . . . .

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

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 understandable, and it has a role to play.

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

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

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.

There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

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

Okay, so here's my question: When did civility become incompatible with protest? Why do some people consider civility an antonym - anathema, even - to political action and dissent? Because, and I'm raising my voice, it's not. Have we forgotten how Mahatma Gandhi used nonviolent civil disobedience to free India from British rule and inspire civil rights movements worldwide?

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.

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.