Tocqueville Wrote

Famous quotes containing the words tocqueville and/or wrote:

    “I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    “When I wrote of the women in their dances and wildness, it was a mask,
    on their mountain, gold-hunting, singing, in orgy,
    it was a mask; when I wrote of the god,
    fragmented, exiled from himself, his life, the love gone down with song,
    it was myself, split open, unable to speak, in exile from myself.
    ...
    No more masks! No more mythologies!”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)