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Quotes About Disobedience

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.
~ Max Anders
Sin is blatant mutiny against God.
~ Oswald Chambers
Before we can pray for God's blessing, we should ask ourselves if our disobedience could hinder his blessing.
~ Max Anders
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
~ Sinclair Lewis
In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.
~ David Platt
He that disobeys God, rejects his reign; and so God views it
~ John L. Dagg
In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.
~ Malcolm X
Become goddesses of disobedience.
~ Naomi Wolf
Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.
~ Erich Fromm
Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Further, it is evident that if pope or other superior command the priest not to preach, who is disposed to do so (as has been said), or the rich not to give alms, the inferior ought not to obey. Wherefore, depending on this command of the Lord, I have not obeyed Pope Alexander's command in regard to not preaching and hence will humbly bear excommunication,1 confident that I will secure to myself the benediction of my God.
~ Jan Hus
You might not be the devil, but you can certainly raise hell.
~ Jana Deleon
Only the darkest of them, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967–8), ever seemed in tune with a decade of civil disobedience and anti-imperialist guerrilla wars, although the series inevitably sided with a global military and Euro-cool consumerism.
~ Edward James
Fear of man is always part of a triad that includes unbelief and disobedience.
~ Edward T. Welch
What is a rebel A man who says no.
~ Albert Camus
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation
~ Alexander Hamilton
You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course.
~ Greta Thunburg
If I played today, I'd stay in trouble. I'd be in the commissioner's office all the time, I guess. I'd be everywhere - including where I wasn't supposed to be.
~ Reggie Jackson
Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
~ Dan Stevens
Anger is a serious issue for many fathers because a child's disobedience is seen as an affront to the father's authority and honor. But sinful displays of anger only undermine a father's authority, tempting a child to hold the father in disdain and contempt.
~ Richard D. Phillips
You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.
~ Joyce Meyer
Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.
~ William Shakespeare