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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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Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
— Thomas Hobbes
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Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple
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The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps…
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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has…
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Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
— Georges Bernanos
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Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets…
— John Muir
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There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry,…
— Kate Chopin
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To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods. Their ways are not meant for the humble likes of us. But we've…
— Darren Shan
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Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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