Quotes About Disobedience

I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.

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How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

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

I really rebel against authority.

There's always stuff to rebel against.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.

After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn't call myself Orthodox anymore. It's so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There was something about writing 'Disobedience'... it felt like I had put it all in the book. I had done my best by it, recorded what it meant for me. I felt I was done.

I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Nothing in the world is quite so irritating as dealing with mutinous children.

The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.

Daddy," the boy said, "I don't want to disobey you, but I have made my pledge. If you try to keep me home, I will sneak off. If you think I deserve to be punished for that, I'll just have to take the punishment. For, you see, I'm not doing this only because I want to be free. I'm doing it also because I want freedom for you and Mama, and I want it to come before you die.

OFF THE COUCH! BAD KITTIES!

No civil rulers are to be obeyed when they enjoin things that are inconsistent with the commands of God. All such disobedience is lawful and glorious.

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.

You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.

There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Anything is better than doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

Fine," he said. "Anything is better than doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

didn't fit through the hole. He waked up from his nap. Then he started to cry very loud. I heard loud feet running in the hall. "JUNIE B. JONES! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" yelled an angry voice. It was Mother.

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