Disobedience Quotes

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

Hannah Arendt
- Law
- Prejudice
- Criminal
Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

William Kunstler
- Believe
- Disobedience
We intend to do peaceful, non-violent disobedience because that's what is covered (by the media), ... If it takes that, we'll do it.

Ann Wright
The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

Mahatma Gandhi
Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.

Antonio Negri
Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

John Stuart Mill
There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency.

Richard Phillips