Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859
Birthday: July 29
Death: April 16
There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.
source: "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter III, Part I, 1835.
topic: Freedom, Equality, America, Liberty And Equality, Democracy In America, Political Freedom, Enamored, Equality Of People, Freedom And Equality, Economic Freedom, Mental Slavery, Slavery Freedom, Slavery In America, Human Equality
