Disobedience Quotes

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. (Henry David Thoreau)
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. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
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. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience. View quote
Clement of Alexandria
DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights. View quote
Tariq Ali
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. View quote
Jane Austen
It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette... unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator. (Dylan Moran)
Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience. View quote
Benedict of Nursia
Disobedience is the vehicle of progress. View quote
John McAfee
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason. View quote
Erich Fromm
Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. View quote
Erich Fromm
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. View quote
Edwin Louis Cole
Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts. View quote
Antonio Negri
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. View quote
Pope Shenouda III
Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights. View quote
Sonia Johnson
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Disobedience is a right that belongs to every human being, and it becomes a sacred duty when it springs from civility. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Disobedience without civility, discipline, discrimination, non-violence, is certain destruction. Disobedience combined with love is the living water of life. Civil disobedience is a beautiful variant to signify growth, it is not discordance which spells death. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
For the first time people in the south stopped calling for separation, raised the national flag and demanded an end to the regime. It's been truly historic. The country is united in its aim to rid itself of the regime through public vigils and rallies, civil disobedience and slogans instead of tear gas and bullets. View quote
Tawakkol Karman
As this conviction grew upon me, I was filled with a new excitement and my depression at the non-success of civil disobedience grew much less. Was not the world marching rapidly towards the desired consummation? There were grave dangers of wars and catastrophes, but at any rate we were moving. There was no stagnation. Our national struggle became a stage in the longer journey, and it was as well that repression and suffering were tempering our people for future struggles and forcing them to consider the new ideas that were stirring the world. We would be the stronger and the more disciplined and hardened by the elimination of the weaker elements. Time was in our favour. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Whoever seeks the satisfaction of people through disobedience of God, then God subjects him to people. View quote
Husayn ibn Ali