Obedience-Disobedience

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. (Oscar Wilde)

Forgive us for bypassing political duties; for condemning civil disobedience when we will not obey You; for reducing Your holy law to average virtues, by trying to be no better or worse than most men. (Litany for Holy Communion - United Presbyterian Church)

Obedience, bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth. Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, a mechanized automation. (Shelley)