“As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.”
― No Exit
― No Exit
“If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”
― Civil Disobedience
― Civil Disobedience
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
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“Things do not change; we change.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.”
― Civil Disobedience
― Civil Disobedience
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