Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience’s taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.
Hannah Arendt
You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Malcolm X
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes
lawless or, which is the same thing, corrupt.
Mahatma Gandhi
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
Chinese Proverb
If it takes civil disobedience, that’s what it takes.
Pat Fitzpatrick
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
Juvenal
We need some civil disobedience.
Michael Carter
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein
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.
Henry David Thoreau
No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.
Hermann Keyserling
Because the judge holds an important office, he can’t engage in civil disobedience.
Rod Parker
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed
rules, and without it civil disobedience would be cruel joke.
Mahatma Gandhi
Integrity has no need of rules.
Albert Camus
At this point, we know that a march can draw hundreds of thousands of people, while acts of civil disobedience only bring out small minorities of the most committed people who are willing to take that risk at the moment.
Hany Khalil
We are warning of acts of fraud. This might lead to civil disobedience.
Saleh al-Mutlaq
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke
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.
John J. Miller
We were expressing our patriotic rights … engaging in civil disobedience. We want to show it’s not OK for the Department of Defense or the Pentagon to spy on its citizens.
Kot Hordynski
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.
Mark Twain
Was it a success or a failure? On one hand, it was a failure because it didn’t shut down all economic activity in California. On the other hand, it is a success because nobody really felt like this was an unreasonable act of civil disobedience.
David Shirk
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities
are wrong.
Voltaire
Disobedience, The Rarest And Most Courageous Of The Virtues, Is Seldom Distinguished From Neglect, The Laziest And Commonest Of The Vices.
George Bernard Shaw
Non-cooperation and civil disobedience are different but [are]
branches of the same tree call Satyagraha (truth-force).
Mahatma Gandhi
Human History Begins With Man�s Act Of Disobedience Which Is At The Very Same Time The Beginning Of His Freedom And Development Of His Reason.
Every Actual State Is Corrupt. Good Men Must Not Obey Laws Too Well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.
Veterans Fast for Life
If there is civil disobedience, and violent civil disobedience, then we are prepared to make arrests and mass arrests if needed.
Scott Fear
Disobedience to be civil implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
Mahatma Gandhi
We Should Never Forget That Everything Adolf Hitler Did In Germany Was �Legal� And Everything The Hungarian Freedom Fighters Did In Hungary Was �Illegal.�
Martin Luther King
Human history begins with man’s act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.
Erich Fromm
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.
Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering without the
intoxicating excitement of killing.
Mahatma Gandhi
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
It Is Necessary To Distinguish Between The Virtue And The Vice Of Obedience.
Lemuel K. Washburn
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis
If the government fails to fulfill these conditions, the Communist party reserves the right to vote against the budget in subsequent readings, … civil disobedience and protest across the whole country.
Gennady Zyuganov
Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
Mahatma Gandhi
This was not an experiment in civil disobedience or an adventure in trespassing, but simply a clear and pretty day at a beautiful old campus and we thought we’d just share some it.
George Bellows
If We Desire Respect For The Law, We Must First Make The Law Respectable.
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.
Clarence Darrow
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.
Robert A. Heinlein