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.
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.
I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water.
Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.
You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.
It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.
The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way.
Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.
There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.
If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco
There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.
Expressions of disobedience naturally encourage terrorist organizations and motivate them to intensify their actions.
We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.
Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more.
When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.
Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.
As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
I didn't know how I was going to deal with 'Disobedience' because it takes place in such a specific and often secretive world.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.
There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.
I was afraid to admit feeling ill because even when I was 4 or 5, I knew that my father viewed sickness as a sign of weakness, of sin, of disobedience.
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
Complete happiness lies in obedience to All?h, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.
Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.
You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course.
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.
What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of respect that acts as a nettle sting on the thin skin of the humourless?
If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.
Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?
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