It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established au

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. – Voltaire

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Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

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. – Clarence Darrow

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. – Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849

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