disobedience quotes

7 quotes

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

Henry David Thoreau

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that’s available to us as Christians.

Joyce Meyer

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Blaise Pascal

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

Kurt Vonnegut

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

Noam Chomsky