Disobedience Quotes
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![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Jerry Bridges](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1302566710i/73755.jpg)
“Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It might be good if we stop using the terms victory and defeat to describe our progress in holiness. Rather, we should use the terms obedience and disobedience. When I say I am defeated by some sin, I am unconsciously slipping out from under my responsibility. I am saying something outside of me has defeated me. But when I say I am disobedient, that places the responsibility for my sin squarely on me. We may in fact be defeated, but the reason we are defeated is because we have chosen to disobey.
We need to brace ourselves up and to realize that we are responsible for thoughts, attitudes, and actions. We need to reckon on the fact that we died to sin's reign, that it no longer has any dominion over us, that God has united us with the risen Christ in all His power and has given us the Holy Spirit to work in us. Only as we accept our responsibility and appropriate God's provisions will we make any progress in our pursuit of holiness.”
― The Pursuit of Holiness
We need to brace ourselves up and to realize that we are responsible for thoughts, attitudes, and actions. We need to reckon on the fact that we died to sin's reign, that it no longer has any dominion over us, that God has united us with the risen Christ in all His power and has given us the Holy Spirit to work in us. Only as we accept our responsibility and appropriate God's provisions will we make any progress in our pursuit of holiness.”
― The Pursuit of Holiness
![Ambrose Bierce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183231430i/14403._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.”
― The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works
― The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works
![Kathy Acker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1680649172i/6304._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“[...] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.”
― Eurydice in the Underworld
― Eurydice in the Underworld
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Curtis White](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1252119541i/62896._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“...This is the arena in which a spiritualized disobedience means most. It doesn't mean a second New Deal, another massive bureaucratic attack on our problems. It doesn't mean taking to the streets, throwing bricks through the window at the Bank of America, or driving a tractor through the local McDonald's. It means living differently. It means taking responsibility for the character of the human world. That's a real confrontation with the problem of value. In short, refusal of the present is a return to what Thoreau and Ruskin called "human fundamentals, valuable things," and it is a movement into the future. This movement into the future is also a powerful expression of that most human spiritual emotion, Hope.
p.124”
― The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work
p.124”
― The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work
![Jerry Bridges](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1302566710i/73755.jpg)
“The Christian living in disobedience also lives devoid of joy and hope. But when he begins to understand that Christ has delivered him from the reign of sin, when he begins to see that he is united to Him who has all power and authority and that it is possible to walk in obedience, he begins to have hope, and as he hopes in Christ, he begins to have joy. In the strength of this joy, he begins to overcome the sins that have so easily entangle him. He then finds that the joy of a holy walk is infinitely more satisfying than the fleeting pleasures of sin. But to experience this joy, we must make some choices. We must choose to forsake sin, not only because it is defeating to us but because it grieves the heart of God.”
― The Pursuit of Holiness
― The Pursuit of Holiness
![Barbara Dana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1247239356i/280779.jpg)
“I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.”
― A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson
― A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson
![Immanuel Kant](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651532424i/11038._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“If now we attend to ourselves on occasion of any transgression of duty, we shall find that we in fact do not will that our maxim should be universal law, for that is impossible for us; on the contrary, we will that the opposite should remain a universal law, only we assume the liberty of making an exception in our own favor or (just for this time only) in favor of our inclination. Consequently, if we considered all cases from one and the same point of view, namely, that of reason, we should find a contradiction in our own will, namely, that a certain principle should be objectively necessary as a universal law, and yet subjectively should not be universal, but admit of exceptions. As, however, we at one moment regard our action from the point of view of a will wholly conformed to reason, and then again look at the same action from the point of view of a will affected by inclination, there is not really any contradiction, but an antagonism of inclination to the precept of reason, whereby the universality of the principle is changed into mere generality, so that the practical principle of reason shall meet the maxim half way. Now, although this cannot be justified in our own impartial judgement, yet it proves that we do really recognize the validity of the categorical imperative and (with all respect for it) only allow ourselves a few exceptions which we think unimportant and forced from us.”
― Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
― Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
![John Milton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1438861655i/9876._UY200_CR4,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure; and, in my choyce,
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav'n.”
― Paradise Lost
Here we may reign secure; and, in my choyce,
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav'n.”
― Paradise Lost
“To be obedient to/in an oppressive and suppressive system means I am weak. In a place where civil disobedience should be a new culture”
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![Naomi Alderman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1272068831i/118226._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“Dwelling within the congregation, she noted the familiar soup of thoughr and emotion. There were angers there, bitters hatreds, fear and boredom and resentment and guilt ands sorrow. She saw herself from outside herself. Am I really? she thought. Can that be me, that person who appears so strange to all these others? She saw herself through a dozen pairs of eyes, each one registering her oddness with fear or disgust or confusion. She smiled at the people as she passed through them, saying, ah yes, you think I am strange. But I know something you don't know.”
― Disobedience
― Disobedience
![Erich Fromm](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1644332218i/8788._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The act of disobedience set Adam and Eve free and opened their eyes. They recognized each other as strangers and the world outside them as strange and even hostile. Their act of disobedience broke the primary bond with nature and made them individuals. “Original sin,” far from corrupting man, set him free; it was the beginning of history. Man had to leave the Garden of Eden in order to learn to rely on his own powers and to become fully human.”
― On Disobedience and Other Essays
― On Disobedience and Other Essays
![Jeffrey Hann](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1678985818i/29575748._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“Individually, a single person cannot stop government tyranny, but an individual can be the start of a movement of defiance and disobedience, which progresses Tyranny through Revolution. We can evolve past the need for government, the need to be controlled, and an endless cycle of tyranny that has lasted thousands of years. But to get to this point, defiance in the face of tyranny is a must which would be the catalyst to end Tyranny and progress us to the beginning of Revolution.”
― COVID19 - SHORT PATH TO 'YOU'LL OWN NOTHING. AND YOU'LL BE HAPPY.': Welcome to the new Age of Tyranny
― COVID19 - SHORT PATH TO 'YOU'LL OWN NOTHING. AND YOU'LL BE HAPPY.': Welcome to the new Age of Tyranny
“Civil disobedience is being disobedient to the specific “requirement” but still honoring the position of authority. If you are civilly disobedient, you will be subjected to the consequences of that disobedience.”
― Dual Citizenship: Living as a Christian in America
― Dual Citizenship: Living as a Christian in America
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