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Alexis de Tocqueville has 263 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch…
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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 of his…
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I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have…
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political…
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The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes…
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When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much,…
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Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will…
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Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its…
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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.
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... direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel…
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The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and…
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If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make…
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The chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run she is…
— D. H. Lawrence
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It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I…
— Ally Condie
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The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that…
— H. L. Mencken
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That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and…
— Richard Russo
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been…
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Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.
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