 When all conditions are unequal, no inequality is so great as to offend the eye; whereas the slightest dissimilarity is odious in the midst of general uniformity: the more complete this uniformity is, the more insupportable does the sight of such a difference...  Democracy in America - Page 209by Alexis de Tocqueville - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 pages
...exhibiting at once their pride and their servility. The hatred which men bear to privilege increases in proportion as privileges become more scarce and...less considerable, so that democratic passions would scom to burn most fiercely at the very time when they have least fuel. I have already given the reason... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1862 - 526 pages
...servility. The hatred which men bear to privilege increases in proportion as privileges become fewer and less considerable, so that democratic passions would seem to burn most fiercely just when they have least fuel. I have already given the reason of this phenomenon. When all conditions... | |
 | Kurt R. Leube, Thomas Gale Moore - Business & Economics - 1986 - 416 pages
...powerful passage: The hatred that men bear to privilege increases in proportion as privileges become fewer and less considerable, so that democratic passions would seem to burn most fiercely just when they have least fuel. I have already given the reason for this phenomenon. When all conditions... | |
 | George J. Stigler - Business & Economics - 1988 - 666 pages
...societies: The hatred that men bear to privilege increases in proportion as privileges become fewer and less considerable, so that democratic passions would seem to burn most fiercely just when they have least fuel. . . . When all conditions are unequal, no inequality is so great as... | |
 | Richard Paul Bellamy, Angus C. Ross - Philosophy - 1996 - 356 pages
...exhibiting at once their pride and their sevility. The hatred which men bear to privilege increases in proportion as privileges become more scarce and...they have least fuel. I have already given the reason for this phenomenon. When all conditions are unequal, no inequality is so great as to offend the eye;... | |
 | Stephen Mennell, John F. Rundell - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1998 - 260 pages
...privileges hecome more scarce and less considerahle. so that democratic passions would seem to hurn most fiercely at the very time when they have least...inequality is so great as to offend the eye; whereas the sligluest dissimilarity is odious in the midst of general uniformity: the more complete is this uniformity.... | |
 | Stephen Mennell, John F. Rundell - History - 1998 - 260 pages
...scarce and less considerahle, so that democratic passions would seem to hurn most fiercely at the vers' time when they have least fuel. I have already given...inequality is so great as to offend the eye; whereas the sligluest dissimilarity is odious in the midst of general uniformity: the more complete is this uniformity,... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 572 pages
...heroics of the new democracy were not empty delusions. The hatred which men bear to privilege increases in proportion as privileges become more scarce and...fiercely at the very time when they have least fuel. . . . When all conditions are unequal, no inequality is so great as to offend the eye; whereas the... | |
 | Morton Schoolman - History - 2001 - 364 pages
...aristocracy's permanently unequal conditions, Tocqueville excused permanent inequality by proposing that when "all conditions are unequal, no inequality is so great as to offend the eye" (DAll, 295). He grudgingly endorsed democratic equality because he believed it to be both historically... | |
 | Ernest Van Den Haag - Philosophy - 386 pages
...one reason: The hatred that men bear to privilege increases in proportion as privileges become fewer and less considerable, so that democratic passions would seem to burn most fiercely just when they have least fuel. . . . When all conditions are unequal, no inequality is so great as... | |
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