There they meet together in large numbers, they converse, they listen to each other, and they are mutually stimulated to all sorts of undertakings. They afterwards transfer to civil life the notions they have thus acquired, and make them subservient to... Democracy in America - 145. lappuseautors: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1863Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 lapas
...listen to each other, and they are mutually stimulated to all sorts of undertakings. They afterward transfer to civil life the notions they have thus...may perhaps be easy to demonstrate that freedom of asso ciation in political matters is favourable to the prosperity and even to the tranquillity of the... | |
| Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 lapas
...separately, or should we not discover the hidden tie which connects them? In their political Tissociations, the Americans of all conditions, minds, and ages,...that political associations perturb the State, and paralyse productive industry ; but take the whole life of a people, and it may perhaps be easy to demonstrate... | |
| J. Arthur Partridge - 1866 - 566 lapas
...America, — Education, responsibility, habit, and property. We reply, with De Tocqueville, u it is u by the enjoyment of a dangerous freedom, that '" the...rendering the " dangers of freedom less formidable." Since the feudal times, how has the number multiplied, of men capable of that combination of self restraint,... | |
| Hannah Arendt - 1972 - 256 lapas
...expedient is used to obviate a still more formidable danger," and, finally, that "it is by the enjoyment of dangerous freedom that the Americans learn the art...rendering the dangers of freedom less formidable." In any event, "if men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must... | |
| Lawrence H. Fuchs - 1990 - 652 lapas
...wrote, Americans "converse, they listen to one another" and work together in all sorts of undertakings. "Thus it is by the enjoyment of a dangerous freedom...rendering the dangers of freedom less formidable. "5 Freedom of association in political matters, he concluded, at least where rights were extensively... | |
| Christopher David Naylor - 1992 - 258 lapas
...stimulated to all sorts of undertakings. They afterwards transfer to civil life the notions they have acquired, and make them subservient to a thousand...that political associations perturb the State, and paralyse productive industry; but take the whole life of a people, and it may perhaps be easy to demonstrate... | |
| Jean L. Cohen, Andrew Arato - 1994 - 804 lapas
...obviate a still more formidable danger, she argues, citing Tocqueville, "it is by the enjoyment of dangerous freedom that the Americans learn the art of rendering the dangers of freedom less formidable."86 It is through the art of association that power (the power of those acting in concert... | |
| David Copp, Jean Hampton, John E. Roemer - 1993 - 468 lapas
...political associations, another thumb in the reactionary eye: "By the enjoyment of a dangerous liberty, the Americans learn the art of rendering the dangers of freedom less formidable."97 The cure for freedom is more freedom. At some historical moments and in the short run,... | |
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