 It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters can not penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened,...  Democracy in America - Stran 235avtor: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1840Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Josephine Elizabeth Butler - 1871 - 226 strani
...republican development of his day, but saw its dangers. " The supreme power in such a democracy," he says, " extends its arm over the whole community ; it covers...uniform, through which the most original minds and most energetic characters cannot penetrate to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 452 strani
...circumscribes the will within a narrower range, and gradually robs a man of all the uses of a See Appendix Y. himself. The principle of equality has prepared men...community. It covers the surface of society with a net- work of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and... | |
 | 1992 - 634 strani
...half ago he warned that if Americans were not careful, Government would, and here's the quote, "cover the surface of society with a network of small, complicated...and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate." This is de Tocqueville, coming over and taking a look at our society back then. I don't know what would... | |
 | John H. Schaar - 1981 - 372 strani
...After having thus . . . taken each member ... in its powerful grasp . . . the supreme power then . . . covers the surface of society with a network of small...rules, minute and uniform, through which the ... most energetic characters cannot penetrate. . . . The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1336 strani
...statute and regulation, De Toqueville said that you — this is him: "You cover the surface of the society with a network of small, complicated rules,...and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent and guided." I do not think we are on that road... | |
 | United States. President (1989-1993 : Bush) - 1990 - 1394 strani
...half ago he warned that if Americans were not careful, Government would, and here's the quote, "cover the surface of society with a network of small, complicated...and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate." This is de Tocqueville, coming over and taking a look at our society back then. I don't know what would... | |
 | Edward C. Banfield - 1991 - 440 strani
...having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and then fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over...through which the most original minds and the most ^Democracy, I, 6. 71Ibid., 11,98. 72Ibid., II, 128. "Ibid., II, 133, 141. 7<Ibid., II, 158. 75Ibid.,... | |
 | Chester A. Zagaski - 1991 - 682 strani
...— that principle is contempt prior to investigation. Herbert Spencer (Regulation] . . . blankets society with a network of small, complicated rules,...most original minds and the most energetic characters cat*.iot penetrate. de Toqueville They conquer who believe they can. Emerson Foreword Rather than "Foreword"... | |
 | 1993 - 374 strani
...having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over...complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the more original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd . .... | |
 | Tod Mikuriya, Mikuriya - 1994 - 44 strani
...having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over...surface of society with a network of small complicated rales, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and most energetic characters cannot... | |
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