Disobedience Quotes

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  • I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.

    Wisdom   Islamic   Light  
  • Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

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

  • Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

    Demand   Way   Authority  
  • Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

  • 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.

    Law   Class   Community  
  • Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

    Memories   Home   Mirrors  
    Maeve Brennan (2015). “The Visitor”, p.8, Counterpoint
  • Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”
  • I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

    The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)
  • There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

    Eye   Ill Will   Hands  
    Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • A film about the love generation - the birthday party of the Aquarian Age showing actual ceremonies to make Lucifer rise. Lucifer is the Light god, not the devil - the Rebel Angel behind what's happening in the world today. His message is that the key of joy is disobedience. Isis (Nature) wakes. Osiris (Death) answers. Lilith (Destroyer) climbs to the place of Sacrifice. The Magus activates the circle and Lucifer - Bringer of Light - breaks through.

    Party   Angel   Sacrifice  
  • Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

    Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.96, Bantam Classics
  • At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'

    John Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (2009). “The Cross”, p.67, InterVarsity Press
  • Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”
  • The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

    Couple   Reality   Years  
    "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.
  • Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

    Twitter post from Jun 15, 2015
  • King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

  • Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

    War   Justice   Hatred  
  • There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

    Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken
  • A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words.

  • You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.

    Order   Taught   Unfair  
    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

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

  • Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

    Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press
  • To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

    "Poems of Problems" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Protest", (pp. 154 - 155), 1914.
  • If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

    Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1
  • Civil disobedience is an act of love.

    "Civil disobedience is an act of love | An interview with Tim DeChristopher". Interview with Leslee Goodman, moonmagazine.org. December 1, 2014.
  • I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

    Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr
  • Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.148, Penguin Books India
  • We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

    War   Law   Judging  
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