| Alexis de Tocqueville - History - 1856 - 364 pages
...relieve his subjects after a long period of oppression is lost, unless he be a man of great genius. Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable,...when once the idea of escape from them is suggested. The very redress of grievances throws new light on those which are left untouched, and adds fresh poignancy... | |
| John Stahl Patterson - Life - 1883 - 526 pages
...French found their condition the more insupportable in proportion to its improvement." And in general, " Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable,...when once the idea of escape from them is suggested. The very redress of grievances throws new light on those which are left untouched, and adds fresh poignancy... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs - 1973 - 690 pages
...growing realization that their lives are without consequence recalls de Tocqueville's observation, "Evils which are patiently endured when they seem Inevitable become intolerable when the idea of escape is suggested." Because the multitude is not yet able to participate in development,... | |
| North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. Conference - Social Science - 1982 - 436 pages
...which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor . . . Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable...when once the idea of escape from them is suggested (de Tocqueville, 1955:176-77). Davies, rhen, concludes that revolutions are more likely to occur when... | |
| Susan D. Clayton, Faye J. Crosby - Business & Economics - 1992 - 172 pages
...current position compare to what one expects, imagines, or hopes for? Alexis de Tocqueville commented that "evils which are patiently endured when they...when once 'the idea of escape from them is suggested" ([1856]1955). Frederick Douglass, the freed American slave, expressed the same idea: Beat and cuff... | |
| Don E. Dumond - History - 1997 - 612 pages
...have been better contrived to turn local banditry into general rebellion. As de Tocqueville put it, "evils which are patiently endured when they seem...when once the idea of escape from them is suggested." 33 And when Jacinto Pat and his friends, many of them with experience gained under Iman and other Yucatecan... | |
| James Chowning Davies - Political Science - 1997 - 396 pages
...which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor. . . . Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable...intolerable when once the idea of escape from them is suggested.3 On the basis of Tocqueville and Marx, we can choose one of these ideas or the other, which... | |
| Kongdan Oh, Ralph C. Hassig - Political Science - 2004 - 302 pages
...something else: the knowledge that better alternatives currently exist.34 Or to quote de Tocqueville, "Evils which are patiently endured when they seem...intolerable when once the idea of escape from them is suggested."35 North Korea is different in an important respect from other dictatorial and communist... | |
| Rosemary H. T. O'Kane - Political Science - 2000 - 612 pages
...which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor. . . . Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable...intolerable when once the idea of escape from them is suggested.2 On the basis of de Tocqueville and Marx, we can choose one of these ideas or the other,... | |
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