Civil Disobedience Quotes

“I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:life good evil

“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:truth justice

“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:truth

“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:freedom nature

“There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:freedom power

“We should be men first, and subjects afterward.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:men democracy

“There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:men virtue

“That government is best which governs least”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:power government

“A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:power

“For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:good action

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