Alexis de Tocqueville Quote

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.


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


The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.