Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Individuality

• I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Fashion, Individuality

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

• A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Names, Individuality

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.195, Xist Publishing

• Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Law, Numbers

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.47, Courier Corporation

• The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Silence, Individuality, Speech

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.114, Princeton University Press

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