 There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau
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Moreover, any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
Henry David Thoreau
"Resistance to Civil Government"
The only wealth is life.
Henry David Thoreau
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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Henry David Thoreau
Walden (1854)
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last possible improvement in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? 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
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
But a government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice . . . Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?
Henry David Thoreau
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Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience
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