Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
[Alexis de Tocqueville]
(below passage shows how this thinker is hugely close-minded against islam and how little he knows about and understands islam.)
(below passage shows how this thinker is hugely close-minded against islam and how little he knows about and understands islam.)
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels, on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything. That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all others.
[Alexis de Tocqueville,Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book One, Chapter V]
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