Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreauwas an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth12 July 1817
CountryUnited States of America
life justice grace
We do not live by justice, but by grace.
philosophy philosophical justice
The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense.
justice spiders world
If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.
men majority-rule justice
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
inspirational justice may
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
government law justice
I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the leastact of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world.
government justice valuable
The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.
government justice champion
While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.
justice want lovers
The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.
men justice drowning
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
men justice office
If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.
sweet justice musical
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
american-author fine house planet tolerable
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
man meet pleased wild wish
I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.