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Institutions Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself…
- I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the…
- Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their…
- The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those…
- The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
- As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an…
- Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
- Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and…
- The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw…
- As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
- I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different…
- I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones,…
- We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward as into the…
More Institutions Quotes
- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have… — Drew Barrymore
- An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the… — Clara Barton
- Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken… — Gary Bauer
- As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. — Pierre Beaumarchais
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing… — Henry Ward Beecher
- No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions… — Ruth Benedict
- FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day… — Felix Adler
- Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant
- Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam… — Lewis Black
- What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and… — William Blake