One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
