Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
Love doesn't want people to stay ignorant and frightened. Love doesn't value obedience over all else. Love doesn't judge and find some lives--or loves--more valuable than others. Love doesn't use people and throw them away. Love stays, and makes you stronger, even when the person you love is gone.
We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.