Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  People, Violence, Dangerous

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2013). “The Old Regime and the Revolution: The controversial bestselling guide to the origins of the French Revolution”, p.236, Harriman House Limited

• When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Rights, Self

• The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Giving, Violence

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1839). “Democracy in America”, p.241

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