Top 279 Disobedience Quotes & Sayings

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

Disobedience is my joy!

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

The key of joy is disobedience.

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

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

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

You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience

Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates of acceptance. On the other hand, He may Allow you to fall into disobedience which happens to lead you to the right path. DISOBEDIENCE that teaches you HUMILITY is better than PIETY that fills you with VANITY and ARROGANCE.

It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

Become goddesses of disobedience.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

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

Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satan’s disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adam’s lapse was passion.

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.

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 the inherent right of a citizen.

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

The secret of all failure is disobedience.

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

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

The only alternative to soul winning is disobedience to Christ.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

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

Today's difficulties are often a result of yesterday's disobedience.

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

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

Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.

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

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

Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

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

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.

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'.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

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

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

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

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

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

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

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.

Evil exists because of the disobedience of Satan. God gave Satan, and the angels, and man free will. Satan used his free will and abused it by not obeying authority. Hell was created by Satan’s disobedience to God, and his purposeful removal from God’s love—which is what hell is. Removing yourself from God’s love. You send yourself to hell. God does not send you there.

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

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

Reviling a Muslim is disobedience to God, and fighting with him is infidelity.