Disobedience Quotes - Page 12

• 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 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 the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Violence, Heat

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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 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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• 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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• God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always deprive us of His blessings. The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change. They are immutable and unchanging.

  L. Tom Perry

  Blessing, World, Moral

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• The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public opinion polls to shape their plans. Results of those polls are informative. But they could hardly be used as grounds to justify disobedience to God’s commandments!

  Russell M. Nelson

  Political, Temptation, Marketing

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• A prominent judge was asked what we, as citizens of the countries of the world, could do to reduce crime and disobedience to law and to bring peace and contentment into our lives and into our nations. He thoughtfully replied, ‘I would suggest a return to the old-fashioned practice of family prayer.’

  Thomas S. Monson

  Country, Prayer, Countries Of The World

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

  John Milton

  Fall, Woe, Bliss

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.352

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• He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Father, Able, Sin

  "'Noble Thoughts in Noble Language" edited by Henry Southgate, (p. 2), 1871.

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• All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Reality, People

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Demand, Way, Authority

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• Over and over again, people had to disobey lawful authority to follow the voice of their conscience. This obedience to God and disobedience to the State has, over and over again, happened throughout history. It is time again to cry out against our 'leaders,' to question (since it is not for us to say that they are evil) whether or not they are sane.

  Dorothy Day

  Voice, People, Evil

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• We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Men, Due Process Of Law, Remember

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• It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Mean, Way, Anarchy

  B. R. Ambedkar (1997). “Selected speeches of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: (1927 - 1956)”

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• It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if they do not suppress rage, but vent it constructively and use its energy peacefully but forcefully to cripple the operations of an oppressive society. Civil disobedience can utilize the militance wasted in riots to seize clothes or groceries many do not even want.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Clothes, Energy, Use

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• If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

  Martin Firrell

  Moral, Obedience, Cruelty

  "Keep the Faith". Text projections in the Duveen Gallery, Tate Britain, London, 2006.

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• There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Virtuous, Instance

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1205, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Richard Grossman

  Law, Class, Community

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• When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.

  Aristotle

  Errors, Views, Law

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.63, Aristotle

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• It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Thinking, Government

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.898, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Disobedience is man's original virtue.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Virtue, Originals

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• If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Giving Up, War, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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