Disobedience Quotes - Page 6

• Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, History

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.410, Seven Stories Press

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• We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It’s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.

  Philip Roth

  Errors, Grace, Abuse

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Nov 21, 2016

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  May, Rewards, Tendencies

  Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.1134, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Guillermo del Toro

  Responsibility, Thinking, Finding Yourself

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 1, 2007.

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• 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.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Play, Roles

  "Civil disobedience has a role to play". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.

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• It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

  Aristotle

  Motivation, Character, Patriotic

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• 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.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Fall, Humility, Acceptance

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

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Thinking, San Francisco, People

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• There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

  Oscar Wilde

  Taken, Moving, Passion

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.212, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Together, Excitement, Intoxication

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way of communicating with political leaders, much in the same way that acts of civil disobedience during the civil rights' movement were really acts of political communication, trying to get laws changed rather than based on the thought that the individual action would really change the practices of segregation.

  Dale Jamieson

  Communication, Leader, Political

  Source: bigthink.com

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• [W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to 'multiply and replenish the earth.' Surely those who project such measures to prevent life or to destroy life before or after birth will reap the whirlwind of God's retribution, for God will not be mocked.

  Harold B. Lee

  Birth Control, Earth, Sin

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• 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.

  Martin Sheen

  Government, Promise, Honest

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Violence, Civil Disobedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

  Charles Stanley

  Obedience, Responsible, Consequence

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• Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Ends, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• ...we are not without hope of salvation, nor is it at all the right time for us to despair. All our life is a season of repentance, for God 'desires not the death of the sinner', as it is written, 'but that the wicked turn from his way and live' (cf. Ez. 33:11 LXX). For, if there were no hope of turning back, why would death not have followed immediately on disobedience, and why would we not be deprived of life as soon as we sin? For where there is hope of turning back, there is no room for despair.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Cfs, Wicked

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Effort, Operations, Term

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “Collected Works”

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• Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is disobedience down at the bottom.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Temptation, Stronger

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Use, Common, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.354, Rajpal & Sons

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• Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Purity, Purification, Pure

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.148, Penguin Books India

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• We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Fear, Age, Due Process Of Law

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience.

  Saadi

  Greatness, Quality, Obedience

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.33, Innovations and Information

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• I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Causes, Language, Objects

  William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...”, p.63

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• A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

  Barbara Deming

  Moving, Great Men, Obedience

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