Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Strength, Strong, Enough

  Du Contrat Social bk. 1, ch. 3 (1762)

• Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Laughter, Teaching, Heart

• To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Rights, Humanity

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.95, Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Gratitude, Philosophical, Inspirational Christmas

• From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Exercise, Men, Rights

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1973). “The social contract: and, Discourses”, Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Rights, Humanity

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.95, Jean Jacques Rousseau

• To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Rights, Humanity

• If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Christian, Vanity, Law

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