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  As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
 ~famous civil disobedience leaders by Clarence Darrow

  It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.
 ~inspirational sayings about Civil Disobedience quotes by Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

  I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
 ~disobedience quotes by Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

  When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.
 ~famous quotes about Civil Disobedience by Veterans Fast for Life

  I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
 ~disobedience sayings by Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849

  Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.
 ~famous civil disobedience leaders by Martin Luther King, Jr., March 22, 1956

  We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was legal and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was illegal.
 ~inspirational sayings about Civil Disobedience quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, Why We Can't Wait, 1963

  If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
 ~disobedience quotes by Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849

  Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
 ~famous quotes about Civil Disobedience by Mark Twain

  Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool.
 ~disobedience sayings by John J. Miller, And Hope to Die

  It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.
 ~famous civil disobedience leaders by Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

  It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
 ~inspirational sayings about Civil Disobedience quotes by Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775

  Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
 ~disobedience quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
 ~famous quotes about Civil Disobedience by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

  No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.
 ~disobedience sayings by Hermann Keyserling

   If a ferret bites you it is nearly always your own fault.
 ~famous civil disobedience leaders by Phil Drabble

   Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
 ~good sayings about Honesty by James Cardinal Gibbons

   The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.
 ~disobedience quotes by Norbet Platt

   If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune.
 ~motivational quotes about Sleep sayings by Griff Niblack

   An apology is a good way to have the last word
 ~disobedience sayings by Author Unknown

   Don't make excuses - make good.
 ~famous civil disobedience leaders by Elbert Hubbard

   Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument.
 ~good sayings about War by James Frederick Green

   I had a dream, and it landed right here in my hand
 ~disobedience quotes by Robert R. Toth

   If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
 ~motivational quotes about Gossip sayings by Alice Duer Miller

   I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.
 ~disobedience sayings by John Burroughs

   If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.
 ~famous civil disobedience leaders by Pam Brown

   Every time we surrender to a vice, we get temporary relief. But the vice gets a tighter grip on us. Which do you prefer – temporary relief or freedom for life?
 ~good sayings about Self Discipline by

   I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.
 ~disobedience quotes by George Bird Evans, Troubles with Bird Dogs

   Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.
 ~motivational quotes about Books Reading sayings by Isaac Bashevis Singer

   But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
 ~disobedience sayings by George Orwell

   Whenever you meet stranger, try to leave him as s friend.
 ~famous civil disobedience leaders by

   Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
 ~good sayings about Civil Disobedience by George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

   Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
 ~disobedience quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

   We need - and should encourage and honour - not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values.
 ~motivational quotes about Conformity sayings by Walter Moberly, The Crisis in the University

   The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
 ~disobedience sayings by Edsger W. Dijkstra

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