Finished reading: Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau 📚

What would be the consequences of effecting this type of civil disobedience today?

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.

but it is easier to deal with the real possessor of a thing than with the temporary guardian of it.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done for ever.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

(Some might say this is how we got to where we are.)

Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it.

This pairs well with this quote from John Kenneth Galbraith:

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.