Zitate von Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville:
Nichts trägt mehr zum Erfolg bei als die Tatsache, daß man sich nicht allzusehr nach ihm sehnt.
Informationen über Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
Schriftsteller, Politiker, "Über die Demokratie in Amerika", "Das Ancien-Regime und die Revolution" (Frankreich, 1805 - 1859).
Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville wäre heute 219 Jahre, 3 Monate, 11 Tage oder 80.092 Tage alt.
Geboren am 29.07.1805 in Verneuil-sur-Seine
Gestorben am 16.04.1859 in Cannes
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Weitere 75 Zitate von Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
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Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it within the people's reach, and teach them how to use and enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.
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Providence has not created mankind entirely independent or entirely free. It is true that around every man a fatal circle is traced, beyond which he cannot pass; but within the wide verge of that circle he is powerful and free.
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Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.
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The danger of a conflict between the white and the black inhabitants perpetually haunts the imagination of the Americans like a bad dream.
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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
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The French Revolution operated in reference to this world in exactly the same manner as religious revolutions acted in view of the other world. It considered the citizen as an abstract proposition apart from any particular society, in the same way as religions considered man as man, independent of country and time.
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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. On either side it is pride, but understood in a different way.
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The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.
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The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.
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The world is a strange theater where the worst plays enjoy the greatest success.
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There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans . . . Their starting point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.
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There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.
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There is one universal law . . . That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.
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To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the habits, ideas and passions of the time must lend themselves to their committal.
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Unable to judge at once of the social position of those he meets, an Englishman prudently avoids all contact with them. Men are afraid less some slight service rendered should draw them into an unsuitable acquaintance; they dread civilities, and they avoid the obtrusive gratitude of a stranger quite as much as his hatred.
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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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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 they do not form a class.
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What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.
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