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Believe Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
- Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on…
- There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great…
- Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they…
- The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality or…
- I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power…
- It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those…
- I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my…
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- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov