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Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience

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  • aleksabellehas quoted3 years ago
    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.
  • aleksabellehas quoted3 years ago
    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
  • CLsphas quoted5 years ago
    If a plant cannot live according to nature, it dies; and so a man.

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