#Disobedience Quotes

“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.”

“Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.”

“Disobedience is man's original virtue.”

“If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.”

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

“A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.”

“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.”

“That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.”

“Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.”

“I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.”

“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?”

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”

“Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.”

“Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.”