Quote #312
There exists in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels
the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces
men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.
-- Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805-1859)
There exists in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels
the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces
men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.
-- Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805-1859)
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