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"[Tyrannical] power is absolute, minute, regular, provident and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?"
 By: | Alexis de Tocqueville (more quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville or books by/about Alexis de Tocqueville) |
| [Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville] (1805-1859) French historian |
Categories: | Authority, Control, Dependence, Government, Happiness, Power, Property, Tyranny |
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