“ Democracy is not the unbounded license of individualism. ”
Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education (1869). copy citation
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
|---|---|
| Source | Sentimental Education |
| Topic | individualism democracy |
| Date | 1869 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34828/34828-h/34828-h.htm |
Context
“The girl from Bordeaux resumed her work. Madame Arnoux, through a sense of propriety, said nothing; but her brows contracted. Frederick murmured:
"Ha! you are very severe for a democrat!"
The other replied in a magisterial tone:
"Democracy is not the unbounded license of individualism. It is the equality of all belonging to the same community before the law, the distribution of work, order."
"You are forgetting humanity!" said Frederick.
Madame Arnoux took his arm. Sénécal, perhaps, offended by this mark of silent approbation, went away.”
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