Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BusinessMenEqualityControlTaste

When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.

Joe Posnanski

Growing UpHonorAmericanLatePause

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ChildrenEarlyNothingUpShould

Once I accidentally left my passport in Nice, France, when I was on my way to Prague. Upon arriving in Vienna, after taking an overnight, and being asked to present my travel documents and realizing I forgot them at the hotel, they kicked me off the train and sent me back!

Megalyn Echikunwoke

TravelMePresentHotelBackTrain

For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

GoodDrawingYouBadBackMatter

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

Spike Jonze

OwnOurSubjectivity

Once you learn the basic rules of good nutrition, you'll realize it's not so complicated. It doesn't matter if you're running errands or 13 miles, you need enough fuel to last all day. Proper nutrition is the difference between feeling exhausted and getting the most out of a workout.

Summer Sanders

GoodDayLearnEnoughYouRules

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.

Robert Atkins

PeopleTreatPhysicianNeverMean

One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

Jonah Peretti

DoingPossibleContentThroughPrint

I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

Bobby Seale

I AmAmericaTroubleBarbecueJazz

I never got nervous performing my own material.

Wiz Khalifa

NervousMy OwnNeverOwnPerforming

We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership.

Sebastian Thrun

LiveCarSocietyBetterOwnership

While we teach, we learn.

Seneca

LearnTeachWhile

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