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Disobedience Quotes
	Frederic Bastiat	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.
	Sir William Berkeley	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!
	William Kingdon Clifford	All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
	Henry Steele Commager	A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.
	Benjamin Constant	No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being...
	Declaration of Independence	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.
	Justice William O. Douglas	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.
	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Good men must not obey the laws too well.
	Abraham Flexner	We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
	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	Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
	Judge Learned Hand	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...
	Gerald W. Johnson	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.
	Immanuel Kant	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.
	Soren Kierkegaard	To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
	Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	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.	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.	There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
	D. H. Lawrence	Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains and always was.
	John Locke	If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.
	John Locke	Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.
	John Locke	... whenever the Legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence. ... [Power then] devolves to the People, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty, and, by the Establishment of a new Legislative (such as they shall think fit) provide for their own Safety and Security, which is the end for which they are in Society.
	H. L. Mencken	Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.
	Huey P. Newton	We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.
	Huey P. Newton	If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
	Huey P. Newton	The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life.
	George O'Neil	When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.
	Glenn Harlan Reynolds	[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power -- and even the duty -- to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.
	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[A]nd obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men and of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.
	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Power, like a desolating pestilence,\\ Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,\\ Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,\\ Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame,\\ A mechanized automaton.
	Leo Shestov	Heretics were often most bitterly persecuted for their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness. Why can they not yield on so trifling a matter?
	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
	State v. Board of Examiners	Disobedience or evasion of a constitutional mandate may not be tolerated, even though such disobedience may, at least temporarily, promote in some respects the best interests of the public.
	Justice Potter Stewart	The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it’s invalid on its face.
	Henry David Thoreau	Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
	Henry David Thoreau	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.
	Henry David Thoreau	As for adopting the ways which the state has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's life will be gone.
	Mark Twain	Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
	Daniel Webster	The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.
	Oscar Wilde	Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress had been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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