Alexis de Tocqueville Quote

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.


Book Three, Chapter XIV. - Democracy in America, Volume II (1840)


Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow...

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow...

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow...

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow...