Quotes About Disobedience

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

Because Jonah's real story is the one never told: never was he as stupendously happy as during those three days and three nights of eternity. He was granted an experience that women dream of: he lived when he was mature in the adored whale's belly. In real paradise. How does one get there? By disobedience. By passion. Running away.)

Sometimes I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people." If that makes me a bitch, okay.

I opened up my copy of the Code of Conduct and turned to Section 11, Rule 3: "Students shall not tamper with smoke or fire alarms under any circumstances." Then I took Leo's pen and drew a line right through it. That felt pretty good too. One rule down and… well, all the rest to go.

Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on good law and rejecting bad law.

According to Paul, therefore, God is always and everywhere merciful, but we sometimes experience his mercy (or purifying love) as severity, judgment, punishment. When we live a life of obedience, we experience it as kindness; when we live a life of disobedience, we experience it as severity (see 11:22). Paul himself called this a mystery (11:25) and admitted that God's ways are, in just this respect, "inscrutable" and "unsearchable" (11:33),

The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

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.

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

Disciplines are by definition based on territorial epistemologies: studying the borders doesn't lead necessarily to border thinking . . . unless scholars engage in epistemological disciplinary disobedience and bring to the fore the existential experience of dwelling in the border. By

He also had a trait, so common among innovators, that was charmingly described by his biographer Andrew Hodges: "Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.

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

Even before Jobs started elementary school, his mother had taught him how to read. This, however, led to some problems once he got to school. "I was kind of bored for the first few years, so I occupied myself by getting into trouble." It also soon became clear that Jobs, by both nature and nurture, was not disposed to accept authority.

There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old.

Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.

All systematic civil disobedience should involve acts that are malum prohibitum: illegal because the state says so, not because they are bad in themselves.

Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

When people hate their government , it is easy to take it down

Boys disobey their parents with such great regularity that it's barely worth a comment; and if yours is talented enough to rebel in such grand fashion, then you ought to consider it a point of pride that he's such a sharp lad.

In his disobedience, your brother is alive. You, in your resentful subservience, are dead. Do you think God wants mindless worshippers who can only follow instructions?

There are only four possible states in which the human being can live, according to revealed sources. A person is either receiving blessings (ni?mah) or tribulations (bal?') from God; or is either living in obedience (???ah) to God or in disobedience (ma??iyyah).

observant but not compulsive" and the absence of a belief in a God who would punish us for disobedience would go on to become cornerstones of my personal and professional life.

like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.