"Unjust laws exist: shall we be content..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.”

“The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.”

“Who hears the fishes when they cry?”

“Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).”

“a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.”

“It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.”

“Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.”

“Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.”

“I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the desk which held my papers, not even a nail to put over my latch or windows. I never fastened my door night or day, though I was to be absent several days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine. And yet my house was more respected than if it had been surrounded by a file of soldiers.”