Quotes About Disobey
for they have no conception how a rational creature can be compelled, but only advised, or exhorted; because no person can disobey reason, without giving up his claim to be a rational creature.
~ Jonathan Swift
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You know, that's my trouble," he groaned. "I never listen to anybody. Somebody kept telling me to put my headlights on, but I just wouldn't listen.
~ Joseph Heller
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To eat the forbidden is to disobey the law of God
~ Sunday Adelaja
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The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
~ Albert Einstein
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I have a directive not to kill anyone if I don't have to. Unfortunately, I've had to disobey that directive on numerous occasions. I don't like doing it, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do." - Sam Fisher
~ David Michaels
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When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.
~ Martin Firrell
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Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish. I thought later how simply and quickly they had introduced that concept to me, as easily as breaking a little finger. For some reason they had decided not to beat me.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
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It was the beginning of that long bifurcation that became my life: Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
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Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
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Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.
~ Robert Kennedy
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We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
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Suffice it to say that the God of Israel loves those who disobey for the sake of what is right, and is capable of being pleased when a man has used his freedom to wrestle with him and to prevail, so long as the path on behalf of which he struggles ultimately proves to be the right one in God's eyes.
~ Yoram Hazony
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That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it.
~ Eoin Colfer
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They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.
~ Amy Hempel
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It started off at a club called Disobey, around the corner from where I live.
~ Richard D. James
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I'm always trying to get my characters to the point of complete rebelliousness. I like that attitude that characters feel when they own their lives. There's something beautiful in the moments when characters disobey.
~ Sebastian Lelio
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Epifania's first order was the most ancient wish of dynasts: that Carmen must conceive a male child, a king-in-waiting through whom his loving mother and grandmother would rule. Carmen, realising in her bitter consternation that this very first instruction would have to be disobeyed, lowered her eyes, muttered, 'Okay, Epifania Aunty, wish is my command,' and fled the room.
~ Salman Rushdie
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How little this is the state of our country, needs not to be told. The edicts of an English academy would, probably, be read by many, only that they may be sure to disobey them.
~ Samuel Johnson
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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
~ John Fowles
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Soldiers disturbed by the Znamenskaya Square massacre had sat up all night debating what to do if ordered to fire on civilians again. On the morning of March 12, they voted to disobey such an order. One regiment after another joined the vote; soon, soldiers were pouring out into the streets to join the demonstrators. It was the largest military mutiny in history.
~ Arthur Herman
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First, parents are not intermediaries between God and children. Secondly, all children are to come to God's truth as individual moral agents independent of, and if necessary, even in conflict with the views of their parents. Finally, even if children are expected to disobey erring parents, they are simultaneously reminded to care for and be fair to them.
~ Asma Barlas
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You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.
~ Mario Savio
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Paulus faced what Strecker called 'the most difficult question of conscience for every soldier: whether to disobey his superior's orders in order to handle the situation as he deems best'. Officers who disliked the regime and despised the GRÖFAZ ('Greatest Commander of All Time'), as they privately referred to the Führer, hoped that Paulus would oppose this madness and trigger a reaction throughout the army.
~ Antony Beevor
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What we love is perfect joy itself. When we know this, even hope becomes useless; it no longer makes sense. The only thing that remains to hope for is the grace not to disobey here below. The rest is God's affair alone and not our concern.
~ Simone Weil
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