Barbarism Quote by Camille Paglia

“The recent explosions, from India to the United States, of ressentiment against writers and journalists as well as politicians, technocrats, businessmen and bankers reveal…

— Pankaj Mishra

“What’s crucial about Rousseau, and many of his ideological successors, is that politics was always personal for him, unlike those whom Tocqueville faulted for…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Rousseau declares, that a woman should never, for a moment feel herself independent, that she should be governed by fear to exercise her NATURAL…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“The first articulate explorer and to an extent even theorist of intimacy was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who, characteristically enough, is the only great author still…

— Hannah Arendt

“Is it Rousseauian fantasy to assert that prehistory was not an unending nightmare? That human nature leans no more toward violence, selfishness, and exploitation…

— Christopher Ryan

“These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence, in his…

— Noam Chomsky

“The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of [woman]. —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions,…

— David Hume

“In reality, the source of all these differences is, that the savage lives within himself, while the social man lives constantly outside himself, and…

— C.J. Box

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

— David Hume

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

— Camille Paglia

“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed…

— Will Durant