Refusal to Obey Quotes

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.

Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

I've never been a yes man.

I'd stood my ground against him. I wasn't going to jump when he said jump. I was more likely to give him the finger.

The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly.

When any one state in the American union refuses obedience to the Confederation, by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience.

I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.

Beijing has a history of ignoring the rules. It takes pride in it.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

I don't have the Big Idea. I don't have the arrogance to even want to have the Big Idea. But I believe the physics of resisting power is as old as the physics of accumulating power. That's what keeps the balance in the universe... the refusal to obey.

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

The way I lived my life, I truly wasn't an active resistance fighter.

I do not take orders from Washington, and I suggest that no one else should either.

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!