Quote of Alexis de Tocqueville - The health of a democratic society...

Biography - Alexis de Tocqueville:

French diplomat, political scientist and historian.
Born: 1805 - Died: 1859
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

Quotes about health:

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.”
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
Gautama Buddha

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.”
Carl Gustav Jung

Health is the primary duty of life.”
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”
Karl Marx

health

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.”
Jean de La Bruyere

health

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Quotes for: society :

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.”
Nicolas Chamfort

society

Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

Article V – The law has the right to forbid only actions harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

Article XV – The society has the right of requesting account from any public agent of its administration.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

Article XVI – Any society in which the guarantee of rights is not assured, nor the separation of powers determined, has no Constitution.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

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Quotes for: Democracy:

Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control. ”
Noam Chomsky

The real democratic progress is not to lower the level of the elite toward that of the crowd, but to raise that of the crowd toward the elite.”
Gustave Le Bon - Hier et demain. Pensées brèves

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.”
Albert Einstein - The World as I See It

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 there are rich men, but they do not form a class.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.”
Noam Chomsky

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Alexis de Tocqueville also said...

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

He was as great as a man can be without morality.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

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