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Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience. — Carolyn Shields

However, not all sorrow and adversity come as a result of disobedience. Some of the disappointments come from living in a fallen world. Many — Charles F. Stanley

It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. - Oscar Wilde (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy) — Oscar Wilde

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us. — George Muller

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau

When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them."
Pastor Butch Paugh — Tarrin P. Lupo

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience — Charles Stanley

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force. — Martin Luther King Jr.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man. — Henry David Thoreau

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience. — Saint Augustine

The secret of all failure is disobedience. — Mary Slessor

If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it? — Michel Templet

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind. — C.S. Lewis

Today's difficulties are often a result of yesterday's disobedience. — Priscilla Shirer

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. — Howard Zinn

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience ... th e problem in this world is civil obedience. — Howard Zinn

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude. — Ambrose Bierce

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together. — Nancy Gibbs

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing. — Mahatma Gandhi

Our problems don't stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right. — Stephen Covey

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience. — Mahatma Gandhi

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience. — John Stott

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. — Aristotle.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty. — Martin Firrell

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress. — Swami Vivekananda

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think. — Guillermo Del Toro

There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey. — Ann Radcliffe

Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King. — Marvin Ammori

A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words ... — Emmeline Pankhurst

Civil disobedience is - it's no fun. — Noam Chomsky

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience. — Mahatma Gandhi

Conscience can be silenced through an incessant disobedience — Sunday Adelaja

I don't believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience. — Ellen Page

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

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open. — Mahatma Gandhi

Before we can pray for God's blessing, we should ask ourselves if our disobedience could hinder his blessing. — Max Anders

The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is disobedience. — Tony Evans

It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against ... everything. — Alice Notley

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation. — Mahatma Gandhi

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed. — Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. — Martin Luther King Jr.

You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience — Edwin Louis Cole

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life. — Mahatma Gandhi

Never be disobedient; take a coach, take a mentor and be instructed! — Israelmore Ayivor

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent. — Mahatma Gandhi

The key of joy is disobedience. — Aleister Crowley

Become goddesses of disobedience. — Naomi Wolf

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen. — Mahatma Gandhi

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery. — Douglas Coop

Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience. — Walter Isaacson

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association. — Mahatma Gandhi

I realized that I was trying to fit God's will into my will. Not out of disobedience, but out of fear that I would disappoint God, or let Him down. — Michelle Lynn Brown

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

Fear of man is always part of a triad that includes unbelief and disobedience. — Edward T. Welch

Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience. — Rick Warren

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence. — Mahatma Gandhi

The fiercest storm is taking place in some of our churches - the unbelief and disobedience of God's Word. — Billy Graham

Little attention was paid, because the German people, no matter how hungry, remained obedient. — Barbara W. Tuchman

You could only rebel against it by secret disobedience or, at most, by isolated acts of violence such as killing somebody or blowing something up. — George Orwell

Wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit ... — John Geddes

The only alternative to soul winning is disobedience to Christ. — Curtis Hutson

Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. — Richard G. Scott

It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience. — Francesca Martinez

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha. — Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence. — Mahatma Gandhi

He has consigned all men to disobedience, that He may have mercy upon all. (Romans 11:32, RSV) — Neville Goddard

[ ... ] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced. — Kathy Acker

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Howard Zinn

Disobedience is man's original virtue. — Oscar Wilde

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero. — Arthur Desmond

Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories. — Carla H. Krueger

Reviling a Muslim is disobedience to God, and fighting with him is infidelity. — Elijah Muhammad

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience — Erich Fromm

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress. — John McAfee

I only punish willful disobedience. — Red Phoenix

Disobedience is a sure recipe for disaster, picking up the pieces is even harder — Kudakwashe Mazendame

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. — C.S. Lewis

Our insistence in proving that we are right is nearly always an indication that there has been some point of disobedience. — Oswald Chambers

Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe! — John Milton

Disobedience is my joy! — Princess Margaret

nothing apart from Him, while disobedience shows that you desire to rebel against God, — Robert Woeger

In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously. — Terry Tempest Williams

Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention. — Mahatma Gandhi

The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience. — Peter Lake

I'll not countenance disobedience. — Kristen Ashley

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights. — Tariq Ali

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity. — Mahatma Gandhi

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it. — Henry David Thoreau