Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes about Violence

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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

Alexis de Tocqueville

People, Violence, Dangerous

Alexis de Tocqueville (2013). “The Old Regime and the Revolution: The controversial bestselling guide to the origins of the French Revolution”, p.236, Harriman House Limited

The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Men, Giving, Violence

Alexis de Tocqueville (1839). “Democracy in America”, p.241

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes about Violence

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