Disobedience Quotes
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George Bernard Shaw: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.
Henry David Thoreau:Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: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.
Oscar Wilde:An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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