Quotations about Civil Disobedience


No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. 
Hermann Keyserling

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.  
Louis D. Brandeis
Every actual state is corrupt.  Good men must not obey laws too well. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.  
Voltaire
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. 
Albert Einstein
When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders. 
Veterans Fast for Life
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality.  Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.  
Malcolm X

Laws control the lesser man.  Right conduct controls the greater one.  
Chinese Proverb
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.  
Juvenal
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.  
George Bernard Shaw
It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.  
 Chinese Proverb
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
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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