Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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• You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Book
  • Facts
  • Judgment

• The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Women
  • Democracy
  • Road

• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Commitment

• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Men
  • Risk
  • Run

• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Military
  • Financial

• The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Government
  • Revolution
  • West

• In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Father
  • Baby
  • Jazz

• The purpose of a business is to create customers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Business
  • Purpose
  • Create

• Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Politics
  • Places
  • Brooklyn

• When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Income

• I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Black
  • Wish

• A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • Easy
  • Cards

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Watch
  • Him
  • Watched

• It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Remember
  • Me

• I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Going
  • Debt
  • Ceiling

• I just feel abstinence is the right thing to do. You don't want to ruin the experience of first sex with your wife, by comparing it to what you've done before.

  

  Sam Reed
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Wife

• Aurora had but newly chased the night,And purpled o'er the sky with blushing light.

  

  Aurora
  • Night
  • Light
  • Sky

• I got different moods. Like, if I'm in a good mood, I listen to 'Up' by Thug. If I'm not in a good mood, I'll listen to 'King TROUP' - that's a real emotional one.

  

  Lil Uzi Vert
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vision its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect - connect without bitterness until all men are brothers.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Men
  • Vision

• When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

  

  Billy Sunday
  • English

• The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Eyes
  • English
  • Anxiety