The Social Contract Quotes

“The whole difference is that, in the family, the love of the father for his children repays him for the care he takes of them, while, in the State, the pleasure of commanding takes the place of the love which the chief cannot have for the peoples...”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:love government care

“Every man has a right to risk his own life in order to preserve it.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:life risk

“The death-penalty inflicted upon criminals may be looked on in much the same light: it is in order that we may not fall victims to an assassin that we consent to die if we ourselves turn assassins.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:death

“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:death body

“Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:freedom liberty

“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

“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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