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Definition of Disobedience
Disobedience

Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.

Related Definitions:
Command, Neglect, Obey, Of, Or, Prohibition, Refusal, To, Violation


Disobedience Quotations

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Disobedience Translations

disobedience in German is Ungehorsam, Ungehorsam, Unfolgsamkeit
disobedience in Italian is disubbidienza
disobedience in Norwegian is ulydighet
disobedience in Spanish is desmandado, desobediencia
disobedience in Swedish is olydnad


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