 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 - Stran 209avtor: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1840Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 strani
...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 - 1862 - 526 strani
...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 - 1986 - 416 strani
...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 - 1988 - 666 strani
...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 - 1996 - 356 strani
...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 - 1998 - 260 strani
...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 - 1998 - 260 strani
...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 - 1998 - 572 strani
...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 - 2001 - 364 strani
...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 - 386 strani
...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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