Disobedience Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. Martin Sheen The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Fire, Government, Long

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• [W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to 'multiply and replenish the earth.' Surely those who project such measures to prevent life or to destroy life before or after birth will reap the whirlwind of God's retribution, for God will not be mocked.

  Harold B. Lee

  Birth Control, Earth, Sin

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• I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

  Clare Balding

  Extraordinary Person, Graffiti, World

  "Clare Balding: 'I want to make the world better, for women mainly'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2013.

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• Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, India, States

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Training, Enough

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Peaceful, Rebellion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.74, Hackett Publishing

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• Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Purity, Purification, Pure

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.148, Penguin Books India

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• Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Effort, Operations, Term

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “Collected Works”

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• Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Violence, Civil Disobedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

  Ted Nugent

  Kings, Defiance, Emperor

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is part of our nation's history and has redirected our country in many instances, from the feminist movement to the Civil Rights movement and beyond.

  Rory Kennedy

  Country, People, Feminist

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• Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

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• The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never was happiness. Disobedience never was happiness. The way of happiness is following the way of the Lord. I believe this with all my heart.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Believe, Heart, Wickedness

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• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Law, Unjust

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.71, New Directions Publishing

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• No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Government, Building Up

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.26, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

  Aaron Swartz

  Light, Law, Justice

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

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• Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Children, Father, Heart

  "Rule of St. Benedict". Book by Benedict of Nursia, c. AD 480–550.

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• Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith. When frustration and impatience challenge charity, hope braces our resolve and urges us to care for our fellowmen even without expectation of reward. The brighter our hope, the greater our faith. The stronger our hope, the purer our charity.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Disappointment, Procrastination, Frustration

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• Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hands, Purpose, Made

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Law, Unjust

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.225, Penguin

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• I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay, if one HONESTman, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Names, Abolition Of Slavery

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.10, Hayes Barton Press

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• Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Moving, World

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• If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Let It Go, Machines

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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• Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Violence, Heat

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