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Society Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
- You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and,…
- Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
- Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to…
- I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.
- 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…
- Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
- I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was…
- Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters…
- Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came…
- If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing…
- Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your…
- I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk…
- I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard…
- Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken…
- In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.
- Men have become the tools of their tools.
- If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.…
- What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
- In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
- It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself…
- Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet…
- Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and…
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- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi