Disobedience Quotes - Page 6

• The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Government, Population, Should

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Fact and Fiction”, p.283, Routledge

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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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• 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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• In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.

  Max Anders

  Israel, Choices, Desire

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• Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders . . . . and millions have been killed because of this obedience . . . .

  Howard Zinn

  People, Leader, World

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• Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

  Noam Chomsky

  Goal, Inspire, Trying

  "Chomsky On The Prospect of Kurdish Independence". Interview with Namo Abdulla, chomsky.info. February 15, 2011.

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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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• What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too dangerous to allow disobedience. A leading principle of world affairs - though, of course, officials and commentators put it more politely.

  Noam Chomsky

  Issues, Mafia, Principles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience otherwise the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders and it can spread to important places.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Order, Ideas

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.

  William Kunstler

  Favors, Certain, Used

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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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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• 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 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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• Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

  John Bytheway

  Adversity, Earth Life, Progress

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• ... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

  Jane Austen

  Attachment, Being Real, Unjust

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.157, Wild Jot Press

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• Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Should, Retaliation, Provoking

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Discipline, Attention, Care

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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