“I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
“Thoreau's disobedience is disobedience as refusal. I won't live in your world. I will live as if your world has ended, as indeed it deserves to end. I will live as if my gesture of refusing your world has destroyed it.”
"The spirit of disobedience: an invitation to resistance"
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