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

That's quite possibly one of my favorite quotes from Civil Disobedience.

As long as we had fresh water, food, books, and maybe (if we were being greedy), some shelter, I think we would do fine

You'd be stuck in a forest forever though!

But that actually doesn't sound so bad. ;D

I would live with you in this society

Yeah come on Shiny it's a cornucopia of love. :D

Yes yes yes. All the politicians should be familiar with his stuff. And I don't think I've read the entire thing, but we read quite a few excerpts from it last year. It was crazy cause I hadn't even heard of these people before. But then we had to make our own transcendentalit society and oh boy it went downhill from there

Yeah the man was a genius, his ideas on how society should function are smurfing godly. He ranks up there with Frederick Douglass as my number one idol

Have you read his Civil Disobedience?

Thoreau was great. Ew, we're agreeing.

YES oh man we learned all about him last year in my other English class, andafew other ones too, obviously. But I was just completely blown away. It all made so much sense!

Henry David Thoreau was a transcendentalist, and he's one of my heros

Haha I don't think so. More like transcendentalist.