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Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience

  • aleksabellehat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    Paley, a common authority with many on moral questions, in his chapter on the "Duty of Submission to Civil Government," resolves all civil obligation into expediency; and he proceeds to say that "so long as the interest of the whole society requires it, that is, so long as the established government cannot be resisted or changed without public inconvenience, it is the will of God . . . that the established government be obeyed—and no longer.
  • aleksabellehat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable
  • CLsphat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    If a plant cannot live according to nature, it dies; and so a man.
  • CLsphat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him;
  • CLsphat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
    "That government is best which governs least"
  • Соня Верхотуроваhat Zitat gemachtvor 6 Jahren
    improvement is slow, because the few are not as materially wiser or better than the many.
  • Соня Верхотуроваhat Zitat gemachtvor 6 Jahren
    voting for the right is doing nothing for it.
  • Соня Верхотуроваhat Zitat gemachtvor 6 Jahren
    long as the interest of the whole society requires it, that is, so long as the established government cannot be resisted or changed without public inconvenience, it is the will of God . .
  • Соня Верхотуроваhat Zitat gemachtvor 6 Jahren
    right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. But almost all say that such is not the case now. B
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