Disobedience Quotes - Page 7

• For good or for bad, India has rejected a more totalitarian approach to how it will deal with its social problems. We would starve but we would not give up our democracy and our love for our freedoms and to deal with these problems in an atmosphere of democracy and the rule of law without necessarily going, sort of resorting to civil disobedience or any kind of violent revolution.

  Cyril Shroff

  Giving Up, Atmosphere, Democracy

  Source: bigthink.com

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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 The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Fire, Government, Long

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• I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

  Clare Balding

  Extraordinary Person, Graffiti, World

  "Clare Balding: 'I want to make the world better, for women mainly'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2013.

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Quiet, Satyagraha, Pursuit

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• I really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• From an athlete's perspective, to cancel the Olympics in regards to the threats would be absolutely devastating - especially since the Olympics - it's really about people meeting together through sports and putting aside their countries' differences for that time.

  Brian Boitano

  Leadership, Sports, Wisdom

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, cbsnews.cbsig.net. January 26, 2014.

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• [Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

  Kelly Ayotte

  Leadership, Money, Reality

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• The City's going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there in the lower level where the river flows right through the City there's going to be these beautiful trees growing on both sides, fruit trees with 12 different kinds of fruit, a different kind every month, think of that!-And leaves that'll be able to heal the people outside the City that are still sin-sick, and sick of their disobediences and their rebellion against God. We're going to be able to take those leaves outside and heal them!

  David Berg

  Beautiful, Thinking, Cities

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• I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.

  Osman Baydemir

  People, Funeral, Apologizing

  "After the Hunger Strike" by Jenna Krajeski, www.newyorker.com. November 27, 2012.

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• No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

  Hermann Graf Keyserling

  Radical Change, Crime, Planes

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, India, States

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Suffering, Excitement

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Training, Enough

  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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• If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Law, Agents, Injustice

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• Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nonviolence, Civil Disobedience

  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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• It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, -- some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Faith, Believe, Blessed

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.171

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• I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Wish, Mexico

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.92, Xist Publishing

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tree, Branches, Different

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

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• Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dignity, Operations, Mass

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

  Sonia Johnson

  Rights, Risk, Civil Disobedience

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• In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, 'Hey, you know what's a larger habitat?' THE OCEAN.

  Conan O'Brien

  Nature, Ocean, Health

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• Okay, so here's my question: When did civility become incompatible with protest? Why do some people consider civility an antonym - anathema, even - to political action and dissent? Because, and I'm raising my voice, it's not. Have we forgotten how Mahatma Gandhi used nonviolent civil disobedience to free India from British rule and inspire civil rights movements worldwide?

  Steven Petrow

  People, Political, Inspire

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mother, Night, Punishment

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• If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Office, Wish, Done

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.... If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Blood, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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