Quote by Alexis De Tocqueville on Equality and Freedom

„Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.“

Alexis De TocquevilleAlexis De Tocqueville on the tension between equality, freedom, and subjection in democratic societies.
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Alexis de Tocqueville was a 19th-century French statesman, historian, and political philosopher known for his analysis of democracy and political society in America.

Analysis of democratic society and the relationship between equality, freedom, and subjection in a historical context.


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Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805–1859) was a French politician, lawyer, and writer. His seminal work "Democracy in America" analyzes the effects of democracy on the social structures of the United States. Tocqueville is considered one of the most influential political thinkers of the 19th century and a founder of modern democratic theory.

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"I think then that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything which ever before existed in the world: our contemporaries will find no prototype of it in their memories. I am trying myself to choose an expression which will accurately convey the whole of the idea I have formed of it, but in vain; the old words “despotism” and “tyranny” are inappropriate: the thing itself is new; and since I cannot name it, I must attempt to define it." Alexis de Tocqueville
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"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common except a single word: equality. The difference is considerable: while democracy seeks equality in freedom, socialism seeks equality in restriction and subjugation." Alexis De Tocqueville
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