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Tanya Thompson
“Few know it, but the Devil rewards insurrection. After all, rebellion is the original sin, and he did conceive it.”
Tanya Thompson

Jackie Hill Perry
“Yet, unbelief doesn't see God as the ultimate good. So it can't see sin as the ultimate evil. It instead sees sin as a good thing and thus God's commands as a stumbling block to joy. In believing the devil, I didn't need a pentagram pendant to wear, neither did I need to memorize a hex or two. All I had to do was trust myself more than God's Word. I had to believe that my thoughts, my affections, my rights, my wishes, were worthy of absolute obedience and that in laying prostrate before the flimsy throne I'd made for myself, that I'd be doing a good thing.”
Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been

Sheila Heti
“Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?”
Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

Nenia Campbell
“You’re a wild and disobedient girl with violence impulses who chafes at authority and your thin veneer of polished civility has all the transparency of a whore’s nightgown.”
Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

Sophocles
“There is no more deadly peril than disobedience;
States are devoured by it, homes laid in ruins,
Armies defeated, victory turned to rout.
White simple obedience saves the lives of hundreds
Of honest folk." - Creon”
Sophocles, Antigone

V.S. Naipaul
“Indian poverty is more dehumanizing than any machine; and, more than in any machine civilization, men in India are units, locked up in the straitest obedience by their idea of their dharma. The scientist returning to India sheds the individuality he acquired during his time abroad; he regains the security of his caste identity, and the world is once more simplified. There are minute rules, as comforting as bandages; individual perception and judgement, which once called forth his creativity, are relinquished as burdens, and the man is once more a unit in his herd, his science reduced to a skill. The blight of caste is not only untouchability and the consequent deification in India of filth; the blight, in India that tries to grow, is also the over-all obedience it imposes, its ready-made satisfactions, the diminishing of adventurousness, the pushing away of men of individuality and the possibility of excellence.”
V.S. Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilization

John Bevere
“The reality is, when someone knows the truth, knows the will of God, knows what God has spoken , and yet pushes back and doesn’t obey, it is idolatry . The reason? Their will, agenda, wishes, and desires have been placed above God’s. All of these things come before Him, and an idol.”
John Bevere, Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength

“My tongue speaks but I do not act;
My heart desires but I do naught.
I am aware of the right path but do not let myself be guided;
I know, but act in ignorance.”
ʻAlī ibn Manṣūr Ibn al-Qāriḥ, The Epistle of Forgiveness, or A Pardon to Enter the Garden

Sari  Gilbert
“In Italy, most laws are honored more in the breach than the observance. “Fatta la legge, trovato l’inganno”, goes one saying that means, “pass a law and we’ll find a way to get around it”. You don’t have to spend much time in Rome to realize that stop signs, and even red lights, are often disregarded, as are those reading “no parking or standing”, and even “one way”.”
Sari Gilbert, My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City

Robert G. Ingersoll
“How fortunate it is for us all that it is somewhat unnatural for a human being to obey. Universal obedience is universal stagnation; disobedience is one of the conditions of progress.”
Robert G. Ingersoll, On the Gods and Other Essays

“The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Henry T. Blackaby
“Over the course of my life, I have learned some important lessons about God's power. For one, you don't need divine power if you are not obeying what God said. It doesn't take a miracle to live in disobedience!”
Henry T. Blackaby, Flickering Lamps: Christ and His Church

Steven Magee
“I have been impressed at how well the Hawaiians have mastered the art of civil disobedience.”
Steven Magee

“Disobedience leads to destruction.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Sari  Gilbert
“And there may be some connection, too, with the Roman Catholic Church’s somewhat flexible attitude towards sin and thus, in general, towards wrongdoing. Otherwise, how to explain that 137 years after Italy became a modern nation-state, so many people still choose simply to ignore laws they don’t like. Maybe other nationalities would be the same if in their countries, too, law enforcement were considered an optional, even by the people charged with that task.”
Sari Gilbert, My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City

“Disobedience seperates us from the Divine Being.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“Disobedience is a disease.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“In disobedience lies a walk in the wrong path.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“Disobedience leads to disaster.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“Do not allow disobedience to destroy you.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Robert G. Ingersoll
“In the presence of the unknown, all have an equal right to think.”
Robert G. Ingersoll, On the Gods and Other Essays

Alex Paknadel
“Edgar Rawls knows the case for the world is made anew every single day, that each new dawn brings a relitigation of man’s first disobedience and a shot at one more stay of execution.”
Alex Paknadel, Redfork

“Knee-jerk disobedience and anticonformity are no more praiseworthy than the most mindless loyalty to a group.”
Christopher Peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

Mango Wodzak
“Mad Human Disease is the very natural consequence of constantly ignoring and disobeying any of the many of Nature’s Laws.”
Mango Wodzak, Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy

“Although you were rebellion in disobedience, nonetheless, if you repent in obedience, then return to God now, he will not reject you.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“Disobedience to God leads to destruction.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Chester Brown
“In his disobedience, your brother is alive. You, in your resentful subservience, are dead. Do you think God wants mindless worshippers who can only follow instructions?”
Chester Brown, Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus: Prostitution and Religious Obedience in the Bible

“The Lord of Hosts isn't a ‘yes-man’ to all that we do. Let’s be cautious lest we dig our own graves!”
Royal Raj S

“Disobedience leads to defeat.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Mallory O'Meara
“The power that the brewsters possessed made local authorities anxious, even hostile. Women who refused to submit to male control over their beer were marked as disobedient, noncompliant troublemakers.

Noncompliant women armed with knowledge and bargaining power who challenged the economic dominance of men? A recipe for trouble.”
Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol