 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 - Pàgina 209per Alexis de Tocqueville - 1840Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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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