Social Contract Quotes - Page 4

• The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Foundation, Conquest, Strongest

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• 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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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

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

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• 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

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• 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)

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• 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)

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• 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

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• We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Biblical, Enlightenment

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