Henry David Thoreau Quote

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


A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers (ed. 1866)


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

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

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

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