In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Quote by Alexis De Tocqueville
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes
- When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
- I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
- The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
- As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
- 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.
- In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
- What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
- No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
- 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.
- We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
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