Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ties, Language, Mankind

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

• When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Law, People, Justice

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.107, Penguin

• Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Men, Aberration

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.282, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Law, Justice, Majority

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