Civil disobedience Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil disobedience Computers Disobedience Friction Inspirational Life Life is Machines
Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf. — Mark Goddard Copy Share Image
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Right now, the machine keeps us totally busy. If you don't react against it, you'll end up letting yourself go and become the perfect… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology. — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI. — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The only word these corporations know is more,” wrote Chris Hedges, former correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, and the New York… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image