"Have you not budged an inch, then?..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere.... We should wash ourselves clean of such news. Of what consequence, though our planet explode, if there is no character involved in the explosion? In health we have not the least curiosity about such events. We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.”
“I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.”
“When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural.”
More on Priorities
“I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.”
“It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.”
“That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.”