Disobedience Quotes - Page 5

• Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Men, Virtue, Recalcitrant

  Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminatus! Trilogy”, p.597, Hachette UK

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• That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

  Joan Baez

  Peace, Humanity, Nonviolent Communication

  "What would you do if…?". Interview, silouanthompson.net. March 16, 2011.

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• The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Humanity, Principles

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

  Roger Scruton

  Anarchy, Abstract, Intellect

  Roger Scruton (2015). “Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  Edwidge Danticat (2011). “Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work”, p.11, Vintage

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• So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men

  Charlton Heston

  Men, Hands, Tyrants

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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• It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.

  Alice Notley

  States

  "'At the Mercy of My Poetic Voice': An Interview with Alice Notley". Interview with Lindsay Turner, bostonreview.net. November 12, 2013.

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• Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.Pharisee-type believers unconsciously think they have earned God's blessing through their behavior. Guilt-laden believers are quite sure they have forfeited God's blessing through their lack of discipline or their disobedience. Both have forgotten the meaning of grace because they have moved away from the gospel and have slipped into a performance relationship with God.

  Jerry Bridges

  Blessing, Thinking, Discipline

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• Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

  John McAfee

  Progress, Vehicle

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2015

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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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• 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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• Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

  William O. Douglas

  Literature, Moral, Censorship

  "Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 24, 1957.

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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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• Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

  William O. Douglas

  Mean, Community, Literature

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• A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Deeds, Greater, Civil Disobedience

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• Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spinning, Wheels, Careful

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the gifts and talents that are ours. You ask about possible vehicles for change: question, stand, speak, act. Engage in unruly behavior. Disturb the status quo. Take direct action. Commit civil disobedience. Make art. Build community. Dance. Sing. Farm. Cook. Create something beautiful and then give it away. Find your own monkey wrench and use it with the force of love. Sharpen your pencil. Vote.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Art, Direct Action

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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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• Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .

  Kumari Jayawardena

  Country, Women, Struggle

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• Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.

  Oscar Romero

  Mad, Upside Down, Communist

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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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• 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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• A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

  H. G. Wells

  Class, Alliances, Able

  H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.351, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Discrimination, Segregation

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• So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their esoteric meaning, that they never perceived that not only was no sin intended in this disobedience, but that actually the 'Serpent' was 'the Lord God' himself, who, as the Ophis, the Logos, or the bearer of divine creative wisdom, taught mankind to become creators in their turn.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Christian, Creative, Four

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.722, Penguin

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