We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool.

There can be little doubt that it is the fools, and not the wise, who govern the world. While the wise are considering, the fools act; while the wise investigate, the fools have made up their minds; by the time the wise have discovered, the fools have made arrangements, and the wise, for the sake of law and order, or, if not, for the sake of peace and quietness, are obliged to give way.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

If we’re being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Come out, my lord, it is a world of fools.

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

“You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don’t. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.” 16 February 1999

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,
Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

Fools follow rules when the set commands you.

Disobey this phrase.

It is foolhardiness to disobey an outlaw as it means a speedy dispatch to kingdom come.

[W]e avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble[.]