Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859

Topics

EqualityDemocracySocialismLiberty

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.

John Bradshaw

GoodIntelligenceShadowEvilLearn

I have an amp that doesn't have a master volume. It sounds awesome, but we just can't get an appropriate decibel level out of it.

Joe Trohman

AwesomeMasterOutLevelGetJust

The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has become new liberals and much more Americanized.

Joel Kinnaman

FeelNewPoorBecomeMoreOut

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

John Katzman

NeverStudentsCourseTakenWeaker

That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

Robert Lanza

LifeLongPhysicsExperimentsLaws

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

John Vane

ResearchUniversityFoundApplication

I want people to hear me and feel like they can be bold as well.

Stefflon Don

PeopleMeFeelBoldWantWell

With the rather stable ratio of labor force to total population, a high rate of increase in per capita product means a high rate of increase in product per worker; and, with average hours of work declining, it means still higher growth rates in product per man-hour.

Simon Kuznets

WorkGrowthLaborProductHigh

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

Mary Catherine Bateson

WomanManWishesNiceMatterShe

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

Mary Hunter Austin

WaterSpringHelpFindUnderestimate

I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me.

Judy Holliday

DayMeTalkHimWonderfulThings

I can touch my eyebrows with my nose. Look at that! That's not normal. I shouldn't be able to do that.

Josh Thomas

LookI CanTouchNormalEyebrows

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