A Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores" . . . meaning . . . habits of the heart.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Alexis de Tocqueville
French - Historian
July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859

If it's between s'mores and cotton candy, I'm gonna have to go s'mores all the way... but in truth, I'm a gummy bears guy.

Ryan Paevey

Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its duration.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Emile Durkheim

Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

Ovid

In general, I'm fascinated by women who exist outside of society's mores and values.

Liz Goldwyn

The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adherence to rules and traditional mores, the maintenance of hierarchical relationships, and absolute ideas of right and wrong. Any society based on the latter will find novels inherently immoral and subversive.

Jane Smiley

O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no 'European people' united by common mores.

George Will

The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

Paul Goodman

The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.

Joe Moore

As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.

Elif Batuman

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

David Ogilvy

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In America, we do not have a democracy. It's not what we have. We have a representative republic and therefore the rules and regulations that have been written to maintain it are not truly democratic - not purely democratic - in origin. They are about protecting and defending the establishment of this republic.