#disobedience

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#acts #after #attacks #civil #civil disobedience

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#been #born #disobedience #having #i

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#disobedience #faith #obedience #result #unbelief

Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil obedience, the submission of individual conscience to governmental authority. Such obedience led to the horrors we saw in totalitarian states, and in liberal states it led to the public's acceptance of war whenever the so-called democratic government decided on it... In such a world, the rule of law maintains things as they are. Therefore, to begin the process of change, to stop a war, to establish justice, it may be necessary to break the law, to commit acts of civil disobedience, as Southern black did, as antiwar protesters did. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#civil-disobedience #dangers-of-obedience #justice #oppression #rule-of-law

I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#amendment #change #civil #civil disobedience #disobedience

If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it? ↗

— Michel Templet

#freedom-of-speech #politics #freedom

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity. ↗

— Criss Jami

#cute #difficulties #disobedience #evidence #funny

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#government #men

When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them." Pastor Butch Paugh ↗

— Tarrin P. Lupo

#misattributed #men

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#disobedience #inclination #natural #natural inclination #whenever