Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Escaping, Desire, Slavery

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.88, Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Peace, Men, Thinking

• Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.95, Courier Corporation

• 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

• Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Son, Men, May

• Finance is a slave's word.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Finance, Slave

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henry John Tozer, Derek Matravers (1997). “The Social Contract”, p.95, Wordsworth Editions

• One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking, Slave, Masters

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.1, Courier Corporation

• 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

• But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Christian, Short Life, Eye

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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