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- For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
- As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but… — Benjamin Wiker
- There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the… — Benjamin Wiker
- I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the… — Jacques Derrida
- Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but… — Marie Antoinette
- Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set… — Russell Kirk
- Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau. — Bertrand Russell
- One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in… — Walter Pater
- As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense… — Siegbert Tarrasch
- Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
- The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and… — Richard Mitchell