 ... shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting; such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes,...  Democracy in America - Stran 235avtor: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1840Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | David Boaz, Edward H. Crane - 1993 - 426 strani
...but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious...animals, of which the government is the shepherd. 2 Charles Murray has examined the way the welfare state takes over the responsibilities of individuals... | |
 | Larry L. Rasmussen - 1993 - 182 strani
...it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupifies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrial animals, of which government is the shepherd. * What Hayek and conservatives overlook, however,... | |
 | Wilfred M. McClay - 1994 - 386 strani
...but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd. 19 For Tocqueville, too, the transformation of adults into children was at the heart of this modern... | |
 | Tod Mikuriya, Mikuriya - 1994 - 44 strani
...but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."7 Attacked by "drug free" oaths, informers (including children), undercover police, drag-sniffing... | |
 | William E. Scheuerman - 1997 - 348 strani
...but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which government is the shepherd." 82 In offering an alternative to neoconservatism, should we not take this... | |
 | Paul Anthony Rahe - 1994 - 408 strani
...the emergence of commercial society may be "to reduce each nation in the end to no more than a herd of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." 103. Cf. Aesch. Pers. 73-76, 241-42, 584-97 with Thuc. 1.70, 2.34-46, 60-64. See PI. Leg. 3.6946-6953.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs - 1995 - 216 strani
...it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock...animals, of which the government is the shepherd." It is time we recognize that the American people are free-thinking, hard-working, responsible citizens... | |
 | Lars Udehn - 1996 - 476 strani
...it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock...animals, of which the government is the shepherd. (Tocqueville, 1835-40/1961: 380f.) According to Tocqueville, mass society is the result of the destruction... | |
 | Samuel Victor LaSelva - 1996 - 290 strani
...servile equality and destroyed individual liberty. In such a state of society, a people "is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."86 Canadian democracy is different because it struggles with cultural, ethnic, and local... | |
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