Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

I'm tired of being considered property.

With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor ... Each of the things is, by the respective party, called by two different and incompatible names—liberty and tyranny.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.

But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master.