Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Pour recueillir les biens inestimables qu'assure la liberté de la presse, il faut savoir se soumettre aux maux inévitables qu'elle fait naître.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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• With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Death

• I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Love
  • Strong

• Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Business
  • True

• I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Way
  • Dead

• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning

• There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Dark

• That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Up
  • Go
  • Weak

• There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Culture
  • Fashion

• I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Home
  • Tea
  • Drink

• When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Business

• I want to make my own movie.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Own

• As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Far
  • Table
  • Off

• There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Why
  • Think
  • Relationship

• One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Impact

• I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Responsibility

• Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • Important
  • Man

• I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Visualize

• Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • School
  • Doing

• I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Moment

• Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.

  

  Joe Taslim
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Beautiful

• If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Thinking
  • Strength
  • Blemishes

• As the wealthiest country with all the blessings that we have, do we have an obligation to help the outside world? I think we do, as we have an obligation to help everyone within our own borders. The problem is that this automatically gets translated into: "What's the point of having a huge military if we can't bomb people?" That's the problem that I have. Our foreign policy is essentially our defense policy.

  

  Michael Hastings
  • Country
  • Problem
  • Military

• Pour recueillir les biens inestimables qu'assure la liberté de la presse, il faut savoir se soumettre aux maux inévitables qu'elle fait naître.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville