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As the past has ceased to thro...

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

In America, more than anywhere...

In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

What is not yet done is only w...

What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

On close inspection, we shall ...

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Society will develop a new kin...

Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Society is endangered not by t...

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

I studied the Koran a great de...

I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

The world belongs to those wit...

The world belongs to those with the most energy.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

I have only one passion, the l...

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

[T]he main evil of the present...

[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their irresistible strength. I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the inadequate securities which one finds there against tyranny.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

America is a land of wonders, ...

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

There is no country in the wor...

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

America is a country where the...

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

But what most astonishes me in...

But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Christianity has therefore ret...

Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America... In the United States... Christianity itself is a fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to attack or to defend it.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

A state of equality is perhaps...

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

The Americans never use the wo...

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

The electors see their represe...

The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature; indeed, they almost seem to think that he has a power of attorney to represent each constituent, and they trust him to be as eager in their private interests as in those of the country.

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In the United States, except f...

In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the
law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Despotism often presents itsel...

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....