Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville with equality

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist

Lived from: 1805 - 1859

Category: History and sociology | Philosophers Country: FlagFrance

Born: 29 july 1805 Died: 16 april 1859

  • In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
  • However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

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  • Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
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