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Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you're risking, what you're bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn't hurt anybody else.

— Edward Snowden

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Thoreau points out clearly that civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to suffer the penalties from disobeying a law, even if you think that law is unjust.

— Michael Hayden

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

— Napoleon Hill

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

— Al Gore

No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.

— Li Keqiang

There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life.

— Stuart Pearce

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

— Swami Sivananda

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

— William J. H. Boetcker

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

— Tracy Kidder

✗Opposing Perspectives

There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.

— John Edwards

I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?

— Loretta Young