A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that… — 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
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
We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in… — 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
War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is… — 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
