I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that… — 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
I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I have never believed that man’s freedom consists in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
"Let us unite them together in one supreme power which shall govern us all according to wise laws, protect us and defend… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The more I study the works of men in their institutions, the more clearly I see that, in their efforts after independence,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains.... But when… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with… — 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 Image
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
...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 Image
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
