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People Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.
- I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
- I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
- At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them…
- Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt…
- Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
- A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually…
- But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...
- If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
- The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered…
- People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
- Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
- Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
- Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead…
- The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a…
- We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.
- 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…
- Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be…
- If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons,…
- Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
- The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as…
- As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
- Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
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