Alexis De Tocqueville Democracy In America Quotes

Tocqueville characterizes democratic societies as defined by “individualism,” which he calls a novel expression. The quality of life is more important than life itself. […] if men are to remain civilized, or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.

Left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. And in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do. He states plainly, “therefore it is not only to satisfy a curiosity, otherwise legitimate, that i have examined america;

I wanted to find lessons there from which we could profit” (12).

Alexis de tocqueville in no country in the world is the love of property more active and more anxious than in the united states. He states plainly, “therefore it is not only to satisfy a curiosity, otherwise legitimate, that i have examined america; “the gradual development of the equality of conditions is therefore a providential fact, and it possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree: Left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret.