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Quotes About Disobedience

If you are going to break the law, do it with two thousand people … and Mozart.
~ Howard Zinn
Punctuality can go to the devil.
~ Hugo Ball
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
~ Jack Kevorkian
Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you're risking, what you're bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn't hurt anybody else.
~ Edward Snowden
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
~ Hal Holbrook
I've always had trouble with authority.
~ John Milius
But if you work in the rock industry, you should realize that the most important bands are the troublemakers.
~ Cedric Bixler-Zavala
If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.
~ Ayumi Hamasaki
I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?
~ El-P
She found herself wondering what the world would have been like if Shemyaza and the others had never disobeyed the laws of Kharsag and taken human wives.
~ Storm Constantine
I would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders.
~ Mary Gauthier
I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The root of all sin goes back to the garden of Eden. The result of Adam and Eve's disobedience was exile for them and all their descendants after them. Living in exile means living in a perpetual state of disconnection and separation that ultimately leads to death if not remedied. There are four aspects to exile: spiritual, emotional, relational, and physical.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
Did you realize that one of the few commands given to mankind through Adam was "to be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1:286)? If man had intense disobedience to God (e.g., Genesis 6:5,7 6:128) 120 years prior to the Flood (Genesis 6:39), are we to believe they were still being obedient to God's command here? Likely not!
~ Ken Ham
Yeah, I understand. That doesn't mean I'll obey" - Bianka
~ Gena Showalter
I've seen a disobedient client simply turn his attention toward The Adversary and ask "Are You still there?" and suddenly all was made well between them.
~ Geoffrey Wood
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Defy, disobey, and disrupt is for young women who don't have the responsibility of motherhood, and for grandmothers who are past their reproductive years.
~ Isabel Allende
Anarchy is against the law.
~ Graffiti
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
~ Howard Zinn
Just the perfect touch of rebellion," says Haymitch "Very nice." Rebellion?
~ Suzanne Collins
Gale and I directly disobeyed orders yesterday, and Boggs has the injury to prove it. Surely, there will be repercussions, but will they go so far as Coin annulling our agreement for the victors' immunity? Have I stripped Peeta of what little protection I could give him?
~ Suzanne Collins
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
~ Swami Sivananda
Zircoff, I said, put the tomatoes away. Piss, he said, I wish they were hand grenades.
~ Charles Bukowski