4 Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes on Conformity

Alexis de Tocqueville quotes on conformity

25. America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

47. I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

59. In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

108. When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest.