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Quotes About Disobedience

Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds Rather than make unprofited return.
~ William Shakespeare
Laws were made to be broken.
~ Christopher North
Persistence is not defiance, but lawlessness is.
~ Unknown
I cannot seem to contort myself back into the shape of a dutiful child. I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone.
~ Holly Black
I cannot seem to contort myself back in to the shape of a dutiful child. I am becoming unravelled. I am becoming undone.
~ Holly Black
In Kevin's book, unwitnessed disobedience is wasteful.
~ Lionel Shriver
Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.
~ Pope Shenouda III
Dropping out is not the answer; fucking-up is.
~ Valerie Solanas
Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.
~ Veronica Roth
When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them.
~ Danny Masterson
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue,' wrote Oscar Wilde in The Soul of Man Under Socialism.
~ Philip Hoare
Civil disobedience does not disregard the entire body of law, it challenges only a specific application of the law as unjust with the intention of removing it from body of the law, because the function of the law must be to provide access to justice.
~ David Gerrold
She is right," said the baroness. "We are sent into the world to marry." "Do you encourage her in disobedience?" said the baron to his wife, who, terrified by the word, now changed to marble. "Refusing to obey an unjust order is not disobedience," said Ginevra.
~ Honore de Balzac
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
~ Howard Zinn
Again, it is a new doctrine of constitutional law that one indicted for disobedience to an unconstitutional statute may not defend on the ground of the invalidity of the statute, but must obey it though he knows it is no law, and, after he has suffered the disgrace of conviction and lost his liberty by sentence, then, and not before, seek, from within prison walls, to test the validity of the law.
~ Hugo L. Black
I wasn't expelled for anything vicious, just being cheeky, not doing what I was told, answering back, and always rising to the bait if someone said something annoying about my dad.
~ Alfie Allen
Stubbornness and an obstinate disobedience must be mastered with blows.
~ Unknown
I parked somewhere where I would probably get a ticket. I planned to ignore it. Anarchists have a much easier time finding parking spots.
~ Jim Butcher
Give me some good advice and I promise you that I will not follow it.
~ Unknown
I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp
~ Vince Flynn
Religious diversity flourishes because the church is weak, because it is unsound in doctrine and practice. These are the same flaws that allow false believers to remain in our congregations. But because religious diversity flourishes, and because tolerance is considered a virtue, this same cultural trend that has been enabled by the church's disobedience also helps to expose and draw away some of the false believers in our congregations.
~ Unknown
Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.
~ Katherine Mansfield
The law did not encourage obedience, rather it magnified disobedience. Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.
~ Philip Yancey
In men the nature of the genital organs is disobedient and self-willed, like a creature that is deaf to reason, and it attempts to dominate all because of its frenzied lusts.
~ Plato