Egalitarianism Quote by Eric Hobsbawm

“Still, Tocqueville knew that the governing despotism of which he wrote, and which can accurately and broadly be characterized as utopianism, is, for free…

— Mark R. Levin

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“De Tocqueville admired “the extreme skill with which the inhabitants of the United States succeed in proposing a common object to the exertions of…

— Ron Paul

“Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a…

— Anonymous

“they seemed to depict an America in which corruption and cruelty lounged on the couch; in which justice was a beggar and kindness a…

— Amor Towles

“Ideology is essentially a matter of meaning; but the condition of advanced capitalism, some would suggest, is one of pervasive non-meaning. The sway of…

— Terry Eagleton

“Here then is an infallible criterion, by which the nation may judge of the intentions of those who govern it ... if they corrupt…

— Emer De Vattel

“The late distinguished sociologist Robert Nisbet, following Tocqueville, argued that when the forces of personal liberation are dominant in a culture, the result is…

— Charles J. Chaput

“Anarchism has in common with Liberalism the idea that the happiness and prosperity of the individual must be the standard of all social matters.”

— Rudolf Rocker

“Writing during the heyday of Modernization Theory, the French critic Raymond Aron, though resolutely anti-communist, termed American-style individualism the product of a short history…

— Pankaj Mishra

“It has ever been the tendency of power to add to itself, to enlarge its sphere, to encroach beyond the limits set for it;…

— Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

“Those who claim to believe in liberal principals but advocate more and more confiscation of the wealth created by productive people, more and more…

— David Boaz