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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
Category: Civil Disobedience Source: Juvenal
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Albert Einstein
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No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Hermann Keyserling
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When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Veterans Fast for Life
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Voltaire
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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.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Henry David Thoreau
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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.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Erich Fromm
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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Mark Twain
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Integrity has no need of rules.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Albert Camus
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Louis D Brandeis
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Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: John J Miller
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
Category: Civil Disobedience Source: Chinese Proverb
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Martin Luther King
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We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong.... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Alexander Bickel
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I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Henry David Thoreau
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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.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Clarence Darrow
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Edmund Burke
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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Robert A Heinlein
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