Below are some random quotes from "Civil Disobedience" that are not only interesting and thought provoking, but also very applicable to issues we are dealing with today.
Quotes from "Civil Disobedience"
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made agents of injustice.
What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot today? They hesitate and they regret and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have to regret. At most, they give only cheap vote, and a feeble countenance and God-speed, to the right, as it goes by them.
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let's see who is the strongest.
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.
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