Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: government
Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
Jean-Jacques RousseauEvery 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 RousseauTags: freedom
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: government
Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre.
Jean-Jacques RousseauEl hombre ha nacido libre y en todas partes se halla encadenado.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: freedom political-philosophy
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 RousseauTags: awesome fave true-to-fact
To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: philosophy dreamers romantics
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: liberty
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