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Quotes About Disobedience

You," she said, spearing Wayne in the chest with a finger. "I thought I told you not to come back." "I thought I ignored you.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Then I will be proven wrong," Sazed said. He turned, looking into her eyes. "But kindly remember that the last ime I disobeyed the Synod, the result was the collapse of the Final Empire and the freedom of our people.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Over the course of my life, I have learned some important lessons about God's power. For one, you don't need divine power if you are not obeying what God said. It doesn't take a miracle to live in disobedience!
~ Henry T. Blackaby
And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
~ Herman Melville
Be the trouble you want to see in the world.
~ Joey Comeau
A Prussian officer was expected to share a set of core values, defining his "honor," which took precedence over an order. If he acted in accordance with honor – or, as we might more commonly say today, with integrity – disobedience was legitimate. The right talent and the right behavioral biases were put in place as a first step.
~ Stephen Bungay
He's not following any of the rules, is he?
~ Stephen Graham Jones
My hand was a balloon sculpture, nerveless and fragile; it wouldn't do what it was told.
~ Mike Carey
break the rules pay the price
~ Brandon Mull
Religion and law among the masses must be one and the same. An act of disobedience must be a sin and require religious penalties. This will have the dual benefit of bringing both greater obedience and greater bravery. We must depend not so much on the bravery of individuals, you see, as upon the bravery of a whole population. Pardot Kynes, address to gathered representatives of the greater sietches
~ Brian Herbert
There are no "little obediences." Every opportunity given us by God, either to obey or to disobey, is an opportunity for that character formation and strengthening of faith that can prepare us for the greater challenges of faith God has in mind for us in the future.
~ Bruce A. Ware
But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.
~ Bruce Feiler
We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.
~ Joshua Wong
recognize him as such, too. Yes, he had disobeyed his queen. So had many others, who'd never been punished so harshly. Had the crime he'd committed merited a death sentence? There were other Seelie who felt as he did, who wanted a return to
~ Karen Marie Moning
Should any of us be desperate enough to find our own solution and dare to take action, we would have been pronounced to be the lowest of all disobedient wives
~ Karen Miller
The saving of anyone is something which is not in the power of man, but only of God. No one can be saved in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved in virtue of what God can do. The divine claim takes the form that it puts both the obedient and the disobedient together and compels them to realise this, to recognise their common status in face of the commanding God.
~ Karl Barth
The gospel does not leave unchanged the person who does not listen and remains disobedient ... unbelief can lead only to progressive hardening of the heart.
~ G C Berkouwer
Only in the boundaries of a loving Creator can humanity be free. Is a fish out of the water free? Is a bird out of the sky free? Only in fulfilling our god-given purpose can mankind experience the liberty of obedience. Disobedience is not enlightenment, it is pure blindness; it is not freedom, it is slavery.
~ Brian Godawa
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.
~ Howard Zinn
Artists in Times of War The Bomb Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law
~ Howard Zinn
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem.
~ Howard Zinn