Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, People, Liberty

• I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, Political, Liberty

• Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

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

• 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

• It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Voice, Rights

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.578, Jean Jacques Rousseau

• The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liberty, Revolution, States

• Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Men, Liberty

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.524, Courier Corporation

• Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Government, Liberty, Association

• Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Law, Liberty, Obedience

• In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liberty, Prison, Slave

• 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

• Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liberty, May

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.163, Jean Jacques Rousseau

• The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Money, Liberty, Slavery

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (1861). “The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, transl”, p.30

• At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Country, Men, Perfect

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.74, Courier Corporation

• My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Beautiful, Wall, Truth

• 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

  Moving, Men, Giving

• Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liberty

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