Despotism of the heart
Monday, September 8th, 2008The other day a friend emailed me this quotation on despotism by Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville:
” …each man is haunted by a fear of sinking to a lower social level and by a restless urge to better his condition. And since money has not only become to sole criterion of man’s social status…everybody is intent [...]
