Change Quote by Henry David Thoreau

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I believe in reverencing anything in the life of man which has the testimony of the ages as being unexcelled, whether it be literature,…

— C.B. MacDonald

Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they have no…

— Henry David Thoreau

The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as the soil…

— Henry David Thoreau

The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which the speaker…

— Henry David Thoreau

I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what…

— Henry David Thoreau

I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has…

— Henry David Thoreau

To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for a meaning…

— Victor J. Stenger

I've written a lot of other books and this book [Tears we cannot stop] was different. I couldn't just say what I wanted to…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

— Lynda Barry

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the…

— Pope Gregory I

Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it…

— Linda Stone