"A town is saved, not more by..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
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“I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?”
“The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics.”
“f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”
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“There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.”
“It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.”
“When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.”