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Letter "D" » disobedience
«Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
disobedience, foundation, liberty, obedient, On Liberty, slaves, slaving, the true
«Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience»
«The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.»
Author: Peace Pilgrim
(Spiritual leader, Teacher)
| Keywords:
disobedience, disobey, disobeyed, disobeying, exact, free will, obedience, obey, push
«Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.»
«For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; / How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; / God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? / For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
bearing, confirmed, disobedience, diver, divers, ghost, Holy Ghost, neglect, put in, signs and wonders, subjection, The Angels, the world to come, transgression, whereof, wonders
«Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
corrected, disobedience, fought, futile, ideologically, martyrdom, unjust
«DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cloud, disobedience, lining, servitude, silver, silver lining
«Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
commonest, courageous, disobedience, distinguished, lazier, laziest, neglect, neglecting, neglects, rarest, seldom, Too lazy, vices, virtues
«Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
brought, disobedience, forbidden, forbidden fruit, fruit, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, taste, woe
«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.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
History,
Obedience
| Keywords:
disobedience, has-been, history, original, originals, progress, rebellion, Rebellions, the rebellion, virtue
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