Disobedience Quotes - Page 15

• Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Leadership, Running, Zuckerberg

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• In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they have seen of oppression and violence, they have gotten more brave, more strong, more fearless than they were. You see this refusal to just keep quiet and do as you are told.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Leadership, Wisdom, Strong

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• Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Law, Unjust, Civil Disobedience

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.96, Bantam Classics

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• A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you lose your ethical superiority! Nonviolent civil disobedience is a genius; no power can beat it; use it when necessary!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Dog, Peaceful

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• Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Voice, People

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

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• If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Coal, Done

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• Money gained on Sabbath-day is a loss, I dare to say. No blessing can come with that which comes to us, on the devil's back, by our willful disobedience of God's law. The loss of health by neglect of rest, and the loss of soul by neglect of hearing the gospel, soon turn all seeming profit into real loss.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Real, Loss, Blessing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1889). “The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon”

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• We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Writing, Men, Due Process Of Law

  "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy". "See It Now" on CBS, www.lib.berkeley.edu. March 09, 1954.

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• There is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings on the part of God. Sin is dividedness, a state of deficiency, incompleteness, dissociation, enslavement, hatred, but it is not disobedience and not formal violation of the will of God.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Hatred, Sin, Crime

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• The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

  John Stott

  Order, Church, Inactivity

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• Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.

  George Eliot

  Music, Echoes, Law

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.64

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• Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Men, Adam, Should

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• Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.

  Antonio Negri

  Healthy, Natural, Authority

  Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri (2001). “Empire”, p.210, Harvard University Press

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• If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

  Edward Snowden

  Party, Direct Action, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The state says: "Well, in order for it to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to follow these rules." They put us in "free-speech zones"; they say you can only do it at this time, and in this way, and you can't interrupt the functioning of the government. They limit the impact that civil disobedience can achieve. We have to remember that civil disobedience must be disobedience if it's to be effective.

  Edward Snowden

  Impact, Government, Order

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is - one that is simply ineffective.

  Edward Snowden

  Wall, Believe, Imagination

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.

  Philip Glass

  Mean, Names, Fifty

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

  William Kunstler

  Believe, Resistance, Form

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.

  William Kunstler

  Today, Needs, Type

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

  William Kunstler

  Political, Tactics, Violent

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt commit civil disobedience," There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not." What you do is you face the realities of the situation, and decide whether what you're doing will help or hurt the goal you set.

  Allard K. Lowenstein

  Hurt, Reality, Goal

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.

  Philip Hart

  Instance, Has Beens, Appropriate

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them. But when very serious evils confronted the American people, they had to go beyond the Congressmen and Senators, and they had to commit civil disobedience and they had even to break the law.

  Howard Zinn

  Nice, Law, People

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

  Cleve Jones

  Believe, Important, Tactics

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• Lobbying, protesting, letter-writing, American media, civil disobedience, and preaching pacifism ad nauseum, along with EDUCATION is the most effective way to enlighten the masses. Welfare concessions/campaigns, are counterproductive and simply ineffective in this day and age.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Writing, Media, Age

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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