Alternative translation: In politics... shared hatreds are … - Alexis de Tocqueville

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Alternative translation: In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian, most famous for his work Democracy in America.

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Alternative Names: Tocqueville • Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville • Alexis Clérel de Tocqueville • Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

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men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he is become their equal;

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