Admiration Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The art of government lies in finding ways to take advantage of such sentiments, not wasting one’s energy in futile efforts to destroy them;…

— Pareto Vilfredo

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind.…

— Alexander Hamilton

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state.…

— Lord Acton

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

— Anonymous

Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The…

— Winston Churchill

It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find…

— Henry David Thoreau