Disobedience Quotes - Page 15

• A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Law, Evil

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• Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.

  Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di

  Lying, Obedience, Found

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• I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. ... I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD.

  John Paul Stevens

  Writing, Thinking, Justice

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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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• 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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• ... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

  Archibald Cox

  States, Resorts, Civil Disobedience

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.

  George Eliot

  Music, Echoes, Law

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.64

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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