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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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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
— Aristotle
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Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's…
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned
— Duke of Wellington
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The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow…
— J. William Fulbright
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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
— Abraham Lincoln
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One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often…
— Eric Hoffer
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If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety.…
— Mooji
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It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill,…
— Unknown Author
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Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.
— Mason Cooley
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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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