Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Prisons

• I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wish, Littles, Anarchy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.102, Penguin

• Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Hero, Uniforms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.23, Courier Corporation

• We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Liberty, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.335, University of Georgia Press

• There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, College, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tongue, Prison, Fame

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

• Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Angel, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1534, Delphi Classics

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