Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.
The key of joy is disobedience.
Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.
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.
Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.
DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.
Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.
If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.
In the States we've had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything in US history in the last 30 years have all been centred around the climate.
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. . . .
The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.
We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It’s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.
I really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
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.
Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.
