Characteristics Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter only; and…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had…

— Vilfredo Pareto

..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government…

— C. S. Lewis

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

— Max Lerner

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate…

— Walter Lippmann

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

— Victor Hugo

Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those…

— Ordway Tead

The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society…

— Walter Lippmann

“Democratic institutions awaken and foster a passion for equality which they can never entirely satisfy. This complete equality eludes the grasp of the people…

— Alexis de Tocqueville