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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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Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
— Jean Anouilh
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The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry…
— Leland Stanford
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Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of…
— Hermann Hesse
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Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited…
— Thomas J. Stanley
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Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine,…
— Mohsin Hamid
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Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the…
— Rene Cassin
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