Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Obedience

Quotes about: Obedience

• 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)

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Law, Liberty, Obedience

• Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Wise, Plato, Law

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Gustave Le Bon, Charles Mackay, Wilfred Trotter, Everett Dean Martin (2017). “WHAT IS MOB MENTALITY? - 8 Essential Books on Crowd Psychology: Psychology of Revolution, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Instincts of the Herd, The Social Contract, A Moving-Picture of Democracy...”, p.252, e-artnow

• Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Doe, Obedience

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