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Disobedience
An individual who breaks a law that
conscience tells him is unjust, and
who willingly accepts the penalty of
imprisonment in order to arouse the
conscience of the community over its
injustice, is in reality expressing the
highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr
DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver
lining to the cloud of servitude.
Ambrose Bierce
Disobedience, the rarest and most
courageous of the virtues, is seldom
distinguished from neglect, the laziest
and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw
A creature is not to be obeyed
when it involves disobedience
to the Creator.
Muhammad
Civil disobedience becomes a
sacred duty when the state
becomes lawless or corrupt.
Mahatma Gandhi
Disobedience is the true
foundation of liberty. The
obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau
Whenever there is authority,
there is a natural inclination
to disobedience.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Reviling a Muslim is disobedience
to God, and fighting with him
is infidelity.
Muhammad
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein
One has a moral responsibility
to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luther King, Jr
Human history begins with man's act of
disobedience which is at the very same
time the beginning of his freedom and
development of his reason.
Erich Fromm
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence,
disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness,
harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
Sivananda
The major sins are associating other
objects of worship with God,
disobedience to parents, murder,
and deliberate perjury.
Muhammad
Disobedience, the rarest and most
courageous of the virtues, is seldom
distinguished from neglect, the laziest
and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one
who has read history, is man's original
virtue. It is through disobedience that
progress has been made, through
disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde
Many man's scruples lie almost wholly
about obedience to authority and compliance
with indifferent customs, but very seldom
about the dangers of disobedience and
unpeaceableness and rending in pieces
the Church of Christ by needless
separations and endless divisions.
John Tillotson
