Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is se

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

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No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. – Hermann Keyserling

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

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

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. – Louis D. Brandeis

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