Disobedience Quotes - Page 10

• Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and are threatened by faith in God. They fear only the power they cannot possess - the power of truth. So they resent the living example of the devout, especially the devotion of a unique people chosen by God.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Unique, Tyrants

  "Bush Speaks At Holocaust Memorial Event". www.cnn.com. April 19, 2001.

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• We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

  Joshua Wong

  Leadership, Justice, Community

  "Hong Kong protesters promise to keep up occupation" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2014.

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• Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

  Arthur Desmond

  Hero, Stamps

  "Might is Right". Book by Ragnar Redbeard, Chapter 5: The Chief End of Manhood, 6, 1890.

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• A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the
  great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also,
  and so necessarily resist it for the most part, and they are
  commonly treated as enemies by it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hero, Men, Enemy

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

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• Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Challenges, Opponents, Fighter

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• Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Would Be, Obedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Law, Giving

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• Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Citizens, Inherent, Civil Disobedience

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

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• If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Names, Evil, Simplicity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.279, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Reviling a Muslim is disobedience to God, and fighting with him is infidelity.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Fighting, Infidelity, Islam

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• Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independence, Mass, Attainment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “Collected Works”

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• Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independence, Term, Civil Disobedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• I've been in politics all my life. In 1945, I committed my first act of civil disobedience during the election campaign for the first post-World War II general election, when the Labour Party, to everyone's amazement, ousted the Conservatives. I refused to obey the instructions of a policeman, and as a result, almost got a belt around the ear, because those were the days when policemen could hit children and nobody cared, they thought it was probably good for them.

  Patrick Stewart

  Children, War, Party

  Source: time.com

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• The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Persistence, Embodiment, Succeed

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

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• Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Moving, World

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• The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is part of our nation's history and has redirected our country in many instances, from the feminist movement to the Civil Rights movement and beyond.

  Rory Kennedy

  Country, People, Feminist

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay, if one HONESTman, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Names, Abolition Of Slavery

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.10, Hayes Barton Press

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• No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Government, Building Up

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.26, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Voting, Doing Nothing, Civil Disobedience

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press

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• Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Giving, Deny

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• 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

  Fighting, Prisoner, Strict

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Liberty, Principles

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.243, UPNE

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• 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.

  Phil Ochs

  Couple, Reality, Years

  "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.

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• People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Running, Peace, Government

  TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan, August 31, 1959.

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• 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.

  Maeve Brennan

  Memories, Home, Mirrors

  Maeve Brennan (2015). “The Visitor”, p.8, Counterpoint

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