Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Evil, Energy, Enough

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1836). “A Review of M. De Tocqueville's Work on Democracy in America ...”, p.10

• The world belongs to those with the most energy.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Energy, World

• Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Past, Vices, Energy

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XI, 1840.

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