Frases de Alexis De Tocqueville (143 citações, página 3)

Alexis De Tocqueville: 143 citações 12 Curtidas

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“Creio que, em qualquer época, eu teria amado a liberdade; mas, na época em que vivemos, sinto-me propenso a idolatrá-la”

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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
Democracy in America - Volume 2, Página 397 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=n1QPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA397, Alexis de Tocqueville - Sever and Francis, 1864

“Quando o passado não ilumina o futuro, o espírito vive em trevas.”

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Le passé n'éclairant plus l'avenir, l'esprit marche dans les ténèbres.
De la démocratie en Amérique ... et augmentée ... d'un examen ... - Volumes 3-4, Página 340 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=xRITAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA340, Alexis de Tocqueville - 1848

“Os costumes, cuja excelência torna o governo quase inútil e cuja corrupção o torna quase impossível.”

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“Existem hoje na terra dois grandes povos que, a partir de pontos diferentes, parecem avançar para o mesmo objetivo: são os russos e os anglo-americanos. Ambos cresceram no escuro, e quando a atenção da humanidade foi dirigido em outros lugares, eles são subitamente colocado na linha da frente das nações eo mundo aprendeu sobre o tempo, a sua existência e sua grandeza. Todas as outras nações parecem ter atingido quase os limites chamou a natureza, e só tinha de manter, mas eles estão crescendo: todos os outros são presos ou avançar com extrema dificuldade; caminham sozinhos com facilidade e rapidez ao longo de um caminho cujo limite ainda não é conhecido.”

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Il y a aujourd'hui sur la terre deux grands peuples qui, partis de points différents, semblent s'avancer vers le même but: ce sont les Russes et les Anglo-Américains. Tous deux ont grandi dans l'obscurité; et tandis que les regards des hommes étaient occupés ailleurs, ils se sont placés tout à coup au premier rang des nations, et le monde a appris presque en même temps leur naissance et leur grandeur. Tous les autres peuples paraissent avoir atteint à peu près les limites qu'a tracées la nature, et n'avoir plus qu'à conserver; mais eux sont en croissance : tous les autres sont arrêtés ou n'avancent qu'avec mille efforts; eux seuls marchent d'un pas aisé et rapide dans une carrière dont l’oeil ne saurait encore apercevoir la borne.
Œuvres complètes d'Alexis de Tocqueville - Volume 2, Página 430 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=NWpmbs5XfwoC&pg=RA4-PA430, Alexis de Tocqueville, Marie Motley Clérel de de Tocqueville - M. Lévy frères, 1864

“Despotismo pode governar sem fé, mas liberdade não pode. Religião é muito mais necessária nas repúblicas que se estabeleceram em cores brilhantes, que na monarquia que eles atacam, e é mais necessária nas repúblicas democráticas do que em qualquer outra. Como será possível aquela sociedade escapar da destruição, se o nó moral não é fortalecido em proporção ao quanto o nó política é relaxado? E o que pode ser feito com pessoas cujos próprios mestres são, ou se eles não são, submissos à Divindade?”

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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more necessary in the republics which they set forth in glowing colors, than in the morarchy which they attack; and it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Divinity?
Democracy in America - página 288 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=DUAvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA288, Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, Edição 2, G. Adlard, 1838, 464 páginas

“A liberdade da imprensa não faz sentir o seu poder apenas sobre as opiniões políticas, mas também sobre todas as opiniões dos homens. Não modifica somente as leis, mas os costumes (…) Amo-a pela consideração dos males que impede, mais ainda do que pelos bens que produz.”

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citado em "Revista brasileira de estudos políticos", Edições 60-61, Universidade de Minas Gerais - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 1985
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“Democracia e socialismo não têm em comum senão uma palavra: igualdade. Mas repare-se na diferença: enquanto a democracia procura a igualdade na liberdade, o socialismo procura a igualdade na repressão e na servidão.”

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Démocratie et socialisme n'ont rien en commun sauf un mot, l'égalité. Mais pendant que la démocratie cherche l'égalité dans la liberté, le socialisme cherche l'égalité dans la restriction et la servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville como citado em Commentaire, Edições 115-116 - página 801 https://books.google.com.br/books?hl=pt-BR&id=sgkTAQAAMAAJ&dq=tocqueville+D%C3%A9mocratie+et+socialisme+n%27ont+rien+en+commun+sauf+un+mot%2C+l%27%C3%A9galit%C3%A9.&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=+%22D%C3%A9mocratie+et+socialisme+n%27ont+rien+en+commun+sauf+un+mot%2C+l%27%C3%A9galit%C3%A9.%22, Editora Julliard., 2006
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“Por meu lado, sou levado a crer na liberdade mais necessária nas grandes coisas do que nas menores, sendo que nunca posso pensar estar assegurado de um, sem estar a possuir o outro.”

Alexis De Tocqueville livro Da Democracia na América

Je serais, pour ma part, porté à croire la liberté moins nécessaire dans les grandes choses que dans les moindres, si je pensais qu'on pût jamais être assuré de l'une, sans posséder l'autre.
De la démocratie en Amérique - Volume 4 - Página 317 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=6PM_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA317, Alexis de Tocqueville - C. Gosselin, 1811

Alexis De Tocqueville: Frases em inglês

“If it be of the highest importance to man, as an individual, that his religion should be true, the case of society is not the same. Society has no future life to hope for or to fear; and provided the citizens profess a religion, the peculiar tenets of that religion are of very little importance to its interests.”

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Variant translation: Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
Fonte: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX, Chapter XVII.

“The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.”

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Book One, Chapter XXI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book One

“Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.”

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Book Three, Chapter XI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.”

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Book Three, Chapter XXII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

“It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”

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Fonte: Misattributed, P. J. O'Rourke, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut‎ (1996), p. 227.

“Born under another sky, placed in the middle of an always-moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which sweeps along everything that surrounds him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything; he grows accustomed to naught but change, and concludes by viewing it as the natural state of man; he feels a need for it; even more, he loves it: for instability, instead of occurring to him in the form of disasters, seems to give birth to nothing around him but wonders…”

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National Character of Americans—first impressions (1831) Oeuvres complètes, vol. VIII, p. 233 https://books.google.de/books?id=x9pnAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA233&q=ciel.
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Né sous un autre ciel, placé au milieu d'un tableau toujours mouvant, poussé lui-même par le torrent irrésistible qui entraîne tout ce qui l'environne, l'Américain n'a le temps de s'attacher à rien; il ne s'accoutume qu'au changement, et finit par le regarder comme l'état naturel à l'homme; il en sent le besoin; bien plus, il l'aime : car l'instabilité, au lieu de se produire à lui par des désastres, semble n'enfanter autour de lui que des prodiges...
1830s

“Égalité is an expression of envy. It means, in the real heart of every Republican, " No one shall be better off than I am;" and while this is preferred to good government, good government is impossible.”

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Original text (incomplete): L'égalité est une expression d'envie. Elle signifie, dans le cœur de tout républicain : personne ne sera dans une meilleure situation que moi.[...]
Conversation with Nassau William Senior, 22 May 1850 Nassau, p. 94 http://books.google.com/books?id=KuzvHHBxuqgC&pg=PA94&vq=%22an+expression+of+envy%22&dq=tocqueville+william+nassau&lr=&source=gbs_search_s&cad=0
1850s and later
Variante: Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I."

“The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.”

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Fonte: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter X-XIV, Chapter XIII.

“So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.”

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Original text: J'ai tant de sentiments et d'idées qui me sont communes avec les Anglais, que l'Angleterre est devenue pour moi une seconde patrie intellectuelle.
Voyages en Angleterre et en Irlande (Journeys to England and Ireland), 1835.
1830s

“Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.”

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Fonte: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX, Chapter XVIII.

“"The will of the nation" is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.”

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Fonte: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter I-V, Chapter IV.

“In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.”

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Fonte: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter X-XIV, Chapter XIV.

“No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do.”

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Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX

“I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.”

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Book Two, Chapter I.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Two

“Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme division of labor.”

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Fonte: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX, Chapter XVIII.

“What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.”

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Book Three, Chapter XIX.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Two

“Commerce is naturally adverse to all the violent passions; it loves to temporize, takes delight in compromise, and studiously avoids irritation. It is patient, insinuating, flexible, and never has recourse to extreme measures until obliged by the most absolute necessity. Commerce renders men independent of each other, gives them a lofty notion of their personal importance, leads them to seek to conduct their own affairs, and teaches how to conduct them well; it therefore prepares men for freedom, but preserves them from revolutions.”

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Variant translation: Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.
Book Three, Chapter XXI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

“He was as great as a man can be without morality.”

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Said of Napoleon (1842), "Discours de réception a L'Académie Française prononcé le 21 Avril 1842" Oeuvres complètes, vol. IX, p. 17 http://books.google.com/books?id=kIsdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA17&dq=%22Il+%C3%A9tait+aussi+grand+qu%E2%80%99un+homme+puisse+l%E2%80%99%C3%AAtre+sans+la+vertu%22
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Il était aussi grand qu'un homme puisse l'être sans la vertu.
1840s

“As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.”

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Variant translation: When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Book Four, Chapter VIII
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Four