Slave Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

11 Slave quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Rousseau’s thoughts on servitude cut to the heart of his social philosophy. These eleven short excerpts provide a quick window into his ideas on liberty.

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Finance is a slave's word.

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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

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Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

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One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

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“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in…

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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of…

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“MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater…

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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves…

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At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This…

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But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its…

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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his…

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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

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The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple…

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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

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“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen…

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“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions…

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Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I…

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“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -…

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