Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread,… — 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
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power"… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow,… — 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… — 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
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man,… — 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
If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you… — 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
