Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be, pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

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• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Man
  • Respect

• Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Get
  • Inside
  • Struggling

• A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Children
  • Society
  • Smiling

• If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • You
  • Human

• My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Heart
  • Lost
  • Loved

• I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • War
  • Justice
  • Revolution

• My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Society
  • Doubt

• When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Eyes
  • Justice
  • Equal

• Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Society
  • Expression
  • Last

• The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • Society
  • Focus

• Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Relationship

• We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Work
  • Age
  • Justice

• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Down

• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Justice
  • Conscience
  • Court

• In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Why
  • Me
  • Lost

• How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • You
  • Inspired
  • Just

• To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • Heart

• The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs.

  

  Mathias Rust
  • Lost
  • Air

• I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Long
  • Boxing

• I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

  

  Pema Chodron
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Heart

• Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be, pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Society
  • Lost
  • Justice