Logo
I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is

I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. – Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Civil Disobedience
category

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. – Hermann Keyserling

Category:
Civil Disobedience

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. – Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775

Category:
Civil Disobedience

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Civil Disobedience

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. – Clarence Darrow

Category:
Civil Disobedience

Random Quotes

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them. – Charles Horton Cooley

Category:
Psychiatry

I have crushes on women all the time. I dont have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful. – Adam Lambert

Category:
Women

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. – Marya Mannes

Category:
Dreams

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them. – Phyllis Bottome

Category:
Difficulty