Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Social Contract

Quotes about: Social Contract

• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Life, Humorous

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

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

• In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Law, Too Much

• 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)

• In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Punishment, Criminals, Decay

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.145, Jean Jacques Rousseau

• The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, May, Covenant

• ...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Citizens, Riches, Enough

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.34, Courier Corporation

• 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

• 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

• As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Doe, May

  Du Contrat Social bk. 3, ch. 15 (1762)

• The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Government, Uniting, May

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012). “On the Social Contract”, p.19, Courier Corporation

• In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Existence

• 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

• A born king is a very rare being.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Kings, Born, Social Contract

• It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Support, World, Conquer

• 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

• If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Perfect, Democracy

• There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Dungeons, Enough, Social Contract

• 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

• War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Country, War, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.6, Courier Corporation

• Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Laughter, Law, Internet

  Du Contrat Social bk. 3, ch. 15 (1762)

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