Hang On

“There were many American, not to mention European or Japanese, exhibitions sent to the Soviet Union.”
― Andrei Martyanov, Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse

“Without taking credit for his discoveries Tocqueville gives political science three new features not seen before—the concept of the social state (état social), the notion of those like oneself (semblables), and the practice of making predictions.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“The suffering of others, in fact, can add to one’s own sense of impotence, thus to the deepest ill of democratic equality, which Tocqueville calls “individualism,” the self-isolation induced by the belief that an individual by himself can do nothing within a mass of people ruled by vast social forces. Tocqueville shares Rousseau’s disdain for the pettiness of the bourgeois.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America