If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“We all know that we have to put up with a bad government when it is bad; the problem is to find… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted,… — 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
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
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with… — 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
“Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that… — 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 enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in… — 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 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
