Disobedience Quotes - Page 3

• When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

  Bayard Rustin

  Acknowledge You, Society, Dignity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.

  Arundhati Roy

  Powerful, War, Fighting

  Arundhati Roy (2004). “Public Power in the Age of Empire”, p.39, Seven Stories Press

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• While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Equality, Class, Diversity

  Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918

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• Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Texas, Order, Understanding

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• Government is best which governs least

  Thomas Paine

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

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• The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

  Howard Zinn

  World, Problem, Obedience

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• We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Police Violence, Discipline

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Men, Voting

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

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• Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Mother, Men, Fire

  The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

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• Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Men, History

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Done, Realizing, Construction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Extraordinary Person, Trying, World

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• When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Use

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 16, 2014

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• How can it be other than right to worship the Body of the Lord, all-holy and all-reverend as it is, announced as it was by the archangel Gabriel, formed by the Holy Spirit, and made the Vesture of the Word? It was at any rate a bodily hand that the Word stretched out to raise her that was sick of a fever (Mk. 1:31): a human voice that He uttered to raise Lazarus - the dead (Jn. 11:43); and, once again, stretching out His hands upon the Cross, He overthrew the prince of the power of the air, that now works (Eph. 2:2) in the sons of disobedience, and made the way clear for us into the heavens.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Son, Hands

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• Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Machines, Life Is, Friction

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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• The key of joy is disobedience.

  Aleister Crowley

  Keys, Joy

  Aleister Crowley, “Hymn To Lucifer”

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• The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems... There was a time when I thought it was a nuisance to be confronted with a problem. I tried to get rid of it. I tried to get somebody else to solve it for me. But that was a long time ago. It was a great day in my life when I discovered the wonderful purpose of problems. Yes, they have a wonderful purpose.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Law, Long, Great Day

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• Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Earthquakes, Political, Upheaval

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• Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

  George Muller

  Obedience, Motive, Instance

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• At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'

  John Stott

  Order, Justice, God Love

  John Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (2009). “The Cross”, p.67, InterVarsity Press

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• So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully. So we compromise. We do some of what we should, thus removing the stigma of disobedience. But we refrain from the most difficult or objectionable or uncomfortable part, and thus try to get the best of both worlds.

  Ebenezer Erskine

  Giving, Trying, World

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• One thing you can be assured of is that God has already worked out all the details of what your obedience will accomplish - and its all good. we need not fear what our obedience will cause to happen in our life. we should only fear what our disobedience will cause us to miss. the sooner this truth resonates in your heart, the quicker you can make peace with a command from God that you dont fully understand.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Heart, Missing, Causes

  Lysa TerKeurst, Hope Terkeurst (2013). “What Happens When Young Women Say Yes to God”, p.58, Harvest House Publishers

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• In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Stupidity, Disrespect, Mind

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• Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Soul, Done

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• God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.

  Max Anders

  Law, Giving, Obedience

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