Alexis De Tocqueville
Quotes From
Democracy In America (1840)
- To manage those minor affairs in which good sense is all that is wanted – the people are held to be unequal to the task, but when the government of the country is at stake, the people are invested with immense powers; they are alternately made the playthings of their ruler, and his masters – more than kings, and less than men.#
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Nationalism Is Weird
There are two basic moral frameworks people can adopt when thinking about how to treat others: localist and globalist. The basic difference is the size of the moral community. Localism is the default human morality. Human sociality is adapted for life in a close-knit moral community. There's an in-group whom we . . .