Civil Disobedience Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Henry David Thoreau
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| If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. |
| - Louis D. Brandeis |
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| 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 |
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| Integrity has no need of rules. |
| - Albert Camus |
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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. |
| - Clarence Darrow |
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| Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
| - Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| 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, Jr. King |
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| Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| 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 |
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| It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. |
| - Voltaire |
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