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Quote by Jean Cocteau
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. – Jean Cocteau

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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry
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Jean Cocteau
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. – Jean Cocteau

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Escape, Escapism
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Jean Cocteau
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Obedience
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A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. – Hannah Arendt

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Obedience

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. – Joan Baez

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Obedience

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Obedience

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