Henry David Thoreau Machine Quotations

If... the machine of government... 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.

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.