Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 41 Disobedience quotesDisobedience QuotesDisobedience Next 20 quotes And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.~ Frederic Bastiat I thank God, we have not free schools nor printing; and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy and sects into the world; and printing has divulged them and libels against the government. God keep us from both!~ Sir William Berkeley All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.~ William Kingdon Clifford A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.~ Henry Steele Commager No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being...~ Benjamin Constant But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.~ Declaration of Independence When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all. ~ Justice William O. Douglas Good men must not obey the laws too well.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.~ Abraham Flexner Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing politics is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution...~ Judge Learned Hand We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men. ~ Gerald W. Johnson Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.~ Immanuel Kant To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.~ Soren Kierkegaard One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws, but conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains and always was.~ D. H. Lawrence Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print