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Notable Quote

"There is a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom."

— Tocqueville, Alexis de event 1835

From Democracy in America

Context: On the difference between legitimate passion for equality and the destructive desire to level down excellence

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