Civil Disobedience Quotes

“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

“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:good right

“The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:government people

“Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:government democracy respect

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:government justice

“The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:government people

“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:government justice obedience liberty

“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:man right

“There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:virtue

“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:justice law respect

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