disobedience quotes

Erich Fromm: 

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.

George Bernard Shaw: 

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

Henry David Thoreau: 

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.

Martin Luther King, jr.: 

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.

Oscar Wilde: 

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.