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Others Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations…
- In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict…
- Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations...In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is…
- 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…
- One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in…
- Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die.…
- A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes…
- The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs,…
- Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
- I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its…
- Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to…
More Others Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some… — Arthur Ashe
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen