![]() ![]() The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right…. The judgment of an individual’s conscience is not necessarily inferior to the decisions of a political body or majority, and so ” it’s is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. ![]() Democracy is no cure for this, as majorities simply by virtue of being majorities do not also gain the virtues of wisdom and justice. Thoreau asserts that because governments are typically more harmful than helpful, they therefore cannot be justified. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Resistance to Civil Government, called Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. ![]()
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