"Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
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“A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in thegreat sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also,and so necessarily resist it for the most part, and they arecommonly treated as enemies by it.”
“When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.”
“Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.”
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“What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.”
“If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.”
“Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.”