Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes

“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:freedom

“freedom, not power, is the greatest good. That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:freedom power

“To decide that the son of a slave is born a slave is to decide that he is not born a man.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:freedom humanity slavery

“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:freedom man slavery

“At the other extremity of the circle, unanimity recurs; this is the case when the citizens, having fallen into servitude, have lost both liberty and will.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:freedom slavery will

“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:strength right obedience

“We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:strength education

“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:understanding teaching

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:wisdom kindness

“In a word, it is the best and most natural arrangement that the wisest should govern the many, when it is assured that they will govern for its profit, and not for their own.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:wisdom government

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