disobedience

  • 41The Key to Joy Is Disobedience — Infobox Album | Name = Thet Key To Joy Is Disobedience Type = box set Artist = Coil Released = 2003 July Recorded = Genre = Experimental Length = 7:07:57 Label = Threshold House Producer = Coil Reviews = Last album = Live One (2003) This album =… …

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  • 42On Disobedience and other essays — On Disobedience and other essays, published in 1981 by Harper Row, is a book written by psychologist and social philosopher Erich Fromm (1900 1980). This book is a collection of four previously published essays. Disobedience as a Psychological… …

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  • 43civil disobedience — N UNCOUNT Civil disobedience is the refusal by ordinary people in a country to obey laws or pay taxes, usually as a protest. The opposition threatened a campaign of civil disobedience …

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  • 44civil disobedience — noun A form of social protest, involving the active but non violent refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of an established authority, because they are considered to be morally wrong or detrimental. We now had no alternative but to… …

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  • 45Civil Disobedience —   [ sɪvɪl dɪsə biːdjəns, englisch], politischer Begriff, ziviler Ungehorsam …

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  • 46civil disobedience — civil diso bedience noun uncount a form of political protest in which large numbers of people refuse to obey a law: Gandhi s campaign of civil disobedience against the British authorities …

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  • 47civil disobedience — Narrowly understood, the refusal by all or part of a community to pay taxes or obey the laws and regulations of the state , as an attempt at changing government policy by non violent means. The Gandhian protests against British Rule in India are… …

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  • 48civil disobedience — coined 1866 by Thoreau as title of an essay originally published (1849) as Resistance to Civil Government …

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  • 49civil disobedience — UK / US noun [uncountable] a form of political protest in which large numbers of people refuse to obey a law Gandhi s campaign of civil disobedience against the British authorities …

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  • 50wilful disobedience — Intentional disobedience by a free agent who knows what he is doing, although not necessarily acting with malice or evil intent. May v New York Motion Picture Co. 45 Cal App 396, 187 P 785 …

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