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An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

— Noam Chomsky

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— James Mill

Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.

— Robert Shapiro

Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.

— Robert Kennedy

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

— Learned Hand

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

— Jay Weatherill

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

— James Madison

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

— Stanley Milgram

A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.

— Lysander Spooner

✗Opposing Perspectives

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

— Lascelles Abercrombie