The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.


Book One, Chapter V. - Democracy in America, Volume II (1840)

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of...

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of...

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of...

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of...