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And when the relics of humanit...

And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what must they have thought of jurisprudence? May it not be said that they thought, by this single expedient, to make reparation for all the outrages they had committed against the unhappy Indians?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

What good would it be to posse...

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

That man is truly free who des...

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Each member of the community g...

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Whoever refuses to obey the ge...

Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The political body, therefore,...

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Ought to have a universal comp...

Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members.' 'We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

A citizen should render to the...

A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The people is never corrupted,...

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

He who eats in idleness that w...

He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Supreme happiness consists in ...

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

A child who passes through man...

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 tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

I believed that I was approach...

I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

He certainly deserved the name...

He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

But in some great souls, who c...

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The most absolute authority is...

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Luxury either comes of riches ...

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

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Provided a man is not mad, he ...

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

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I may not amount to much, but ...

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

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But I am mistaken in speaking ...

But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

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