Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Parties

• A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Wise, True Friend

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

• What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Peace, War, Party

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2123, Delphi Classics

• Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Party, Opposites, Two

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

• In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle of the law. What is human warfare but just this, - an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Men make an arbitrary code, and, because it is not right, they try to make it prevail by might. The moral law does not want any champion. Its asserters do not go to war. It was never infringed with impunity. It is inconsistent to decry war and maintain law, for if there were no need of war there would be no need of law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Lying, Party

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2123, Delphi Classics

• The deeds of love are less questionable than any action of an individual can be, for, it being founded on the rarest mutual respect, the parties incessantly stimulate each other to a loftier and purer life, and the act in which they are associated must be pure and noble indeed, for innocence and purity can have no equal. In this relation we deal with one whom we respect more religiously even than we respect our better selves, and we shall necessarily conduct as in the presence of God. What presence can be more awful to the lover than the presence of his beloved?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Sex, Party

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.65, Yale University Press

• The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Party, Eye, Movement

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.57, Bantam Classics

• Fire is the most tolerable third party

  Henry David Thoreau

  Party, Fire, Third Parties

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.171, Yale University Press

• Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Drama, Party

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.112, Penguin

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