To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUCivilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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