Community Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

— Henry David Thoreau

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

— Henry David Thoreau

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

— Henry David Thoreau

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

— Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

— Henry David Thoreau

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

— Henry David Thoreau

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

— Henry David Thoreau

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to…

— Henry David Thoreau

I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.

— Henry David Thoreau

“our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them; and the bad neighborhood to be…

— Henry David Thoreau

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates…

— Henry David Thoreau

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

— Henry David Thoreau

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game,…

— Henry David Thoreau

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown.…

— Henry David Thoreau

We belong to the community. It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as…

— Henry David Thoreau

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree,…

— Henry David Thoreau