"When fortune has been abolished, when every profession……" — Alexis de Tocqueville
"When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a great career and feel that he has been called to no common destiny. But this is a delusion which experience quickly corrects."
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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257 Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half…
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I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large…
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines,…
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The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all…
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When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are…
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Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of…
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Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source…
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When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.
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Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would…
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We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the…
— Charles Darwin
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In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was…
— Carl Sagan
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War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.
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Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.
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The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force…
— Mao Zedong
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Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs…
— Vernon Howard
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If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the…
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