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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Faith Liberty Morality Without Nor

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Character Man Nothing Need Surviving

I'm a bit of a gadget freak.

Freak Gadget Bit

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Michael Fassbender

Failure Looking Pressure Feel You

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

Admire Like Very Universally Tend

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

Son Best Growing Up Friends Growing

Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

Truth People Writing Believe Feel

Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.

Michael K. Williams

Music Always Part Characters Make-Up

I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.

Book Without Impulse Publishing Came

Nobody could emerge from a childhood at MGM unscathed.

Childhood Nobody Emerge Could MGM

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

Me Growing Up Growing Protect Guns

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

Love Fear Future Trust People Face

I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

Day Job Think Potential Better Feel

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