I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."
"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"
"The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity."
"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
"As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground."
"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."