Disobedience Quotes - Page 4

• You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Causes, Rebellion

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• Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Needs, Rejoice

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• Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suffering, Preparation, Mute

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.363, Oxford University Press

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• To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Teaching, Mean, Essence

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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.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Law, Mulling Over

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.59, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would have been disastrous. Life is like that. It's full of rough spots. Some are tests to make us stronger. Others result from our own disobedience.... Each one of us encounters unique challenges meant for growth.

  Richard G. Scott

  Unique, Challenges, Growth

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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 is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Littles, Action

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

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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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• 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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• The secret of all failure is disobedience.

  Mary Slessor

  Secret

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• 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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• At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.

  John Stott

  God Love, Christ, Holy

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

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• The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1923). “Letters on Indian Affairs”

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• I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.

  Barbara Dana

  Oil, Important, Public Opinion

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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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• Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Book, Doe, Holy

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