86 ordspråk av Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville föddes den July 29th 1805 och dog den 16 April 1859
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 If a single person in a country is cold or hungry, the leader is at fault |
| If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States. |
| In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end. |
| In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister. |
| In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. |
| In America there are so many ways to make a living that a man usually doesn't turn to politics until he has failed at everything else. |
| In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. |
| In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle. |
| In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. |
| In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. |
| In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. |
| 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 |
| It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable. |
| It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may oft |
| It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too. |
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Proverb (1469536 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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