Respect Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect…

— Henry David Thoreau

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

— Henry David Thoreau

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.

— Henry David Thoreau

Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily…

— Henry David Thoreau

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

— Henry David Thoreau

“With respect to wit, I learned that there was not much difference between the half and the whole.”

— Henry David Thoreau

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We are all poor in respect to a thousand savage comforts, though surrounded by luxuries...for our houses are such unwieldy property that…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he…

— Henry David Thoreau

“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task…

— Henry David Thoreau

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my…

— Henry David Thoreau

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell…

— Henry David Thoreau

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when…

— Henry David Thoreau

“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task…

— Henry David Thoreau

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man…

— Henry David Thoreau

On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days… Such…

— Henry David Thoreau

The deeds of love are less questionable than any action of an individual can be, for, it being founded on the rarest…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man…

— Henry David Thoreau

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax…

— Henry David Thoreau

I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

— Henry David Thoreau

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I think that we should be men first and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

— Henry David Thoreau

“There is no help for it; for he considers, not what is truly respectable, but what is respected.”

— Henry David Thoreau

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

— Henry David Thoreau

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some…

— Henry David Thoreau