Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUEvery person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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 slave than they.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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