The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.
Henry David ThoreauDo not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David ThoreauInexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.
Henry David ThoreauCast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.... If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
Henry David Thoreau