在任何一个有读过历史的人眼中，公民抗命是人类原始的美德。人类历史是通过公民抗命才能取得进展的，要不是经由公民抗命，就得经过军事起义了。

我的音乐就是我的自传。

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

对幸福的追寻是不幸福的主要原因之一。