Abiding Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abiding Honorable Law
Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the… — Maria Edgeworth 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
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding, the invisible in the visible. — Leo Baeck Copy Share Image
I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically… — Alan Gottlieb Copy Share Image
When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an… — Jonathan Falwell Copy Share Image
