Disobedience Quotes - Page 4

• Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.

  Wendell Phillips

  Voice, Together, Goes On

  Wendell Phillips (1969). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series”, Ayer Company Pub

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• It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Heart, Reality

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• I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw.

  Bob Dylan

  Sick, Leader, Want

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• The curse of death for disobedience has been silenced because, for believers, there is no longer any Law we have to obey to merit life. The Law has been silenced, but it can only be silenced when it is has been perfectly fulfilled—when it has been completed. And that’s just what Jesus did.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Jesus, Law, Merit

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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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• By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Children, Men, Law

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• Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satan’s disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adam’s lapse was passion.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Forgiveness, Religious, Islamic

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• It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

  Winston Churchill

  Temples, Vices, Naked

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• Become goddesses of disobedience.

  Naomi Wolf

  Funny Graduation, Goddess

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• A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Men, Wish

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

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• Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

  Erich Fromm

  Obedience, Unlikely, Humans

  "Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem". "On Disobedience and Other Essays" by Erich Fromm, 1981.

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• I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.

  Joan Baez

  Heart, Soldier, Mind

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• Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

  John Tillotson

  Peace, Lying, Men

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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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• And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a challenge that's never boring. You'll have so many things to engage you if you're born a woman. To begin with, you'll have to struggle to maintain that if God exists he might even be an old woman with white hair or a beautiful girl. Then you'll have to struggle to explain that it wasn't sin that was born on the day when Eve picked an apple, what was born that day was a splendid virtue called disobedience.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Beautiful, Girl, Struggle

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• The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Machines, Body

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people's homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem.

  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

  Home, Mean, People

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• According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Humans, Human Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2250, Manonmani Publishers

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• Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

  Erich Fromm

  Civilization, Doubt, May

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• If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Thinking, San Francisco, People

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• ... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

  Archibald Cox

  States, Resorts, Civil Disobedience

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• One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Life, Law, Degrees

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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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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• A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

  Barbara Deming

  Moving, Great Men, Obedience

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