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- “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, The Social Contract
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- “People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.” ― Jean Jacques Rousseau.
- “I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- “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.”
- “... 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,
- “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.”
- “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, The Social Contract.
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Nov 29, 2021 · Of The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right (Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique) (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality ...
Apr 16, 2024 · This fact is that Rousseau who set the Western world aflame with the doctrine of equality and democracy for men also formulated and put into circulation a doctrine claiming that woman should be content to please man and get very little in return…Rousseau's doctrine that woman's duty is to please man fitted neatly, not only with Rousseau's ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU AND EQUALITY 15 soft," while the servant is "malevolent and intractable." Tocqueville had his reservations about the arrangement that created trusted retainers, and he knew that the democratic equality between servants and masters was only a sort of "fancied" opinion, not an actuality. He thought, as did Rousseau, that con
