Then I am all for liberty

Always!

Feeling, hell! Plans for a guillotine are in my kitchen!

behaving ain't no fun.

I just question everything

This is probably one of the most misquoted writing from the 1800's. This is often associated with Thoreau's take on the civil war and events leading up to it as well as his displeasure over the government. However, it was published 20 years before the essay was used in politics.

The rest of the quote reads "The obedient must be slaves". He is not saying to rebel, or even to break any laws. He even laments (in his way) breaking the law himself which landed him in prison. What the aim of his essay "Civil Disobedience" is referring to is questioning the motives, and structures behind those in authority so that society as a whole is not blindsided and subjugated.

Always and forever...

Henry David Thoreau had issues. Some levels of disobedience are excessive. "Sovereign Citizens".

Disobedience is the relm of the delinquent. Hopefully the man will feel comfortable in his own skin. You?

In our broken society disobedience is more & more becoming a civil duty. which suits me well. I love to rebel, love my freedom

I love Thoreau!
Always feeling in the mood for rebellion!!!

I am sure that Thoreau had many thoughts that I would agree with, don't know if this is one of them. Blind obedience just leads to more rules and regulations; I agree. But then there is the crowd that demands their "rights"- and "their rights" supersede those of anyone else's; but you will never find this group demanding their 'obligations'.

Depends on your perspective. From the age of 0 through to adolescence, disobedience might get your a$$ whipped! Disobedience now, is different. If you're careful to do whatever it is in the privacy of your home, no problem. Doing it in public, you're making a statement and need to post bail.

lock and load

I don't know what to tell you. I hate to agree but I don't hate so... I don't know what to say. But at the 3:14 minute of this short on the "The WIld One", premiered the year I was born Johnny got ask the question "Hey Johnny What you Rebel about?". His answer is part of Hollywood Folk and Lore.

With Trump and his morally bankrupt Republican congress in power, you betcha!!

I'm gonna need more coffee for that.

Now i do... more then ever before.

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell

reading Thoreau for me is like going to a buffet. I don't like over half of what is being served but I do go to the buffet.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion - Albert Camus

Remember, the motto: "The squeaky wheel get the grease" was supposed to apply to us. The Chinese motto: "the protruding nail gets pounded down", is starting to take over here. It is simply due to population growth and 'diversity'. Too many people with competing needs, wants and cultures makes it harder and harder to govern. Disobedience (some forms) can lead to violence and civil war. ZPG discussed the negative effects of population for years; one doesn't have to work at NASA to understand it. Imagine if the U.S. had the population of China (1.2 Billion versus 320 million) what that would do to our democracy?

However, we should not downplay the importance of non-violent disobedience as compared to the violent type pushed by the conservative 'brown shirts'.

Think he had a point of reference.

Of course. My whole life as an outspoken atheist is an example of rebellion. I don't follow what White Anglo Saxon Protestants say I should be. I don't care if this pisses people off.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." Ralph Waldo Emerson