Thoreau Magnets 1.25\" I Was Not Born to be Forced, Dissent, Wild & Free Quotes For Sale

A1.25\" flat magnet set inspired by the writings of Thoreau: I Was NotBorn to be Forced, Dissent Without Action Is Consent, and All GoodThings Are Wild and Free.

HenryDavid Thoreau (1817 – 1862) was an American essayist, poet, andphilosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for hisbook Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings,and his essay \"Civil Disobedience\" (originally published as\"Resistance to Civil Government\"), an argument fordisobedience to an unjust state.

Thoreauis sometimes referred to as an anarchist. Though \"CivilDisobedience\" seems to call for improving rather than abolishinggovernment—\"I ask for, not at once no government, but at oncea better government\"—the direction of this improvementcontrarily points toward anarchism: \"\'That government is bestwhich governs not at all;\' and when men are prepared for it, thatwill be the kind of government which they will have.\"

IWas Not Born to be Forced: from The Duty of Civil Disobedience. \"Iwas not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Letus see who is the strongest.\"

DissentWithout Action Is Consent: Used as a slogan by Filipino GeneralDanilo Lim, who was imprisoned from 2006 to 2010 for rebellioncharges and attempted coup d\'état.

AllGood Things Are Wild and Free: “In short, all good things are wildand free. There is something in a strain of music, whether producedby an instrument or by the human voice,--take the sound of a bugle ina summer night, for instance,--which by its wildness, to speakwithout satire, reminds me of the cries emitted by wild beasts intheir native forests. It is so much of their wildness as I canunderstand. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tameones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awfulferity with which good men and lovers meet.”

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Flat collet magnet strong enough to hold up an envelope, or 2-3 sheets of paper. US penny for scale. Penny and ruler NOT included. 1.25 inches = 3.175 cm.