By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.
Edward James Olmos

I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.
Rosie O'Donnell

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
Oriana Fallaci

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.
Martin Sheen

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
Constance Baker Motley

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
Martin Sheen

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
Edwin Louis Cole

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.
Marsha Blackburn