Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

One farmer says to me, You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for i >>

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day daw >>

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and crit >>

Quotations about State

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to hav >>

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. >>

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with >>

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few went to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.

Thoreau, Henry David