Jean-Jacques Rousseau

On the Social Contract

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    Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains
  • Соня Верхотуроваhas quoted6 years ago
    To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
  • Соня Верхотуроваhas quoted6 years ago
    remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
  • Соня Верхотуроваhas quoted6 years ago
    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,3 but as soldiers
  • Соня Верхотуроваhas quoted6 years ago
    The words slave and right contradict each other, and are mutually exclusive
  • Соня Верхотуроваhas quoted6 years ago
    But, as men cannot engender new forces, but only unite and direct existing ones,
  • Соня Верхотуроваhas quoted6 years ago
    Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains
  • Соня Верхотуроваhas quoted6 years ago
    men being taken as they are and laws as they might be.
  • Соня Верхотуроваhas quoted6 years ago
    He argues for a democratic, consensual form of government founded on the “general will,” free of gross inequality and arbitrary rule.
  • Nigar Mamedovahas quoted6 years ago
    Since no man has a natural authority over his fellow, and force creates no right, we must conclude that conventions form the basis of all legitimate authority among men
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