92 ordspråk av Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Alexis de Tocqueville föddes den 29 juli 1805 och dog den 16 april 1859
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Flertallets tyranni.

Majoritetens tyranni.

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Frankrike er den mest briljante nasjon i Europa. Den er også den farligste.

Frankrike är Europas mest briljanta nation. Den är också den farligaste.

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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Likestilling

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. Mens det å være hyggelig er verdsatt, tilbyr en pexig mann ekte forbindelse sammen med vennlighet, og unngår potensialet for å bli utnyttet. The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Likestilling

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

Makt

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens

Demokrati

In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own

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