Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of t
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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.
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, yo
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must
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When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first m
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the d
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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.
Integrity has no need of rules.
Never do anything against conscience even if the
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
If... the machine of government... is of such a n
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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.
No radical change on the plane of history is poss
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No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you me
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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me.
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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.
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitl
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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.
It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue
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It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.
Human history begins with man's act of disobedien
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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.
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotis
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which t
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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