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“Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.”

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Alexis de Tocqueville was a French historian and political theorist renowned for his seminal work 'Democracy in America'. He embarked on a journey to the United States in the 1830s to examine its democratic institutions, and his observations were compiled into a two-volume book that remains a cornerstone in the study of American democracy and political science. more

“Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.”

Men World Has Beens Whole Body Earth Spirit Nations Brain Millions Magic Kings Army Conquer Helpless Beggar Chained Magic Powers

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.”

Humans Ideas Law Growth Approach Dawn Illegal New Ideas Brighter Newness

Author:Emma Goldman

“It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.”

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Author:Emma Goldman

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