The Social Contract Quotes

“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

“Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:good judgement wrong

“The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:nature justice morality

“Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:government democracy

“It is solely on the basis of this common interest that every society should be governed.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:government interest

“All that destroys social unity is worthless; all institutions that set man in contradiction to himself are worthless.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:society

“There will always be a great difference between subduing a multitude and ruling a society.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:society oppression

“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“The great soul of the legislator is the only miracle that can prove his mission.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:soul

“He who judges of morality judges of honour; and he who judges of honour finds his law in opinion.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:morality opinion

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