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Albert Camus
Integrity has no need of rules.

Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Alexander Bickel
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.

Bishop Desmond Tutu
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Chinese Proverb
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

Clarence Darrow
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.

Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion
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.

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

Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849
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, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849
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.

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

John J. Miller, And Hope to Die
Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen.

Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

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

Mark Twain
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."

Martin Luther King, Jr., March 22, 1956
Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile.

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

Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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.

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