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The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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, The Social Contract
tags: freedom
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“...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, The Social Contract
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“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, The Social Contract
tags: laws
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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, The Social Contract
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“أُفضِّل الحرية مع الخطر على السلم مع العبودية”
― جان جاك روسو, العقد الإجتماعي أو مبادئ الحقوق السياسية
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“In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the
government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No
man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live
without danger to society.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
tags: death-penalty, government
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“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, The Social Contract
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“The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out.
Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people,
it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is
wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as
I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
tags: freedom
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“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 guarantee of impunity.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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“A born king is a very rare being.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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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, The Social Contract
tags: liberty
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“The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is
free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are
elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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“If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A
government so perfect is not suited to men.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
tags: democracy, government, politics
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“MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master
of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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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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“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 Rousseau, The Social Contract
tags: government
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“There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something. ”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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“To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and
equally one's duties.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
tags: liberty, mankind
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“To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would
need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men
without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to
the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless
make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of
time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in
another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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“There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of
freedom.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
tags: freedom-slavery
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“إذا أردتم أن تمنحوا الدولة ثباتاً فقربوا بين الطرفيين الأقصيين ما استطعتم، ولا
تحتملوا وجود أناس أغنياء وفقراء، فهذان الحالان اللذان لا يمكن فصل أحدهما عن
الآخر بحكم الطبيعة هما كذلك شؤم على الخير العام، فمن أحدهما يظهر أعوان الطغيان،
ومن الآخر يظهر الطغاة، وبينهما تقع معاملة الحرية العامة، فأحدهما يشترى والآخر
يبيع”
― جان جاك روسو, العقد الإجتماعي أو مبادئ الحقوق السياسية
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“There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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“Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
tags: government, liberty, philosophy
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“Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the
people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived..." (Bk2:3)”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
tags: government, philosophy-of-people, social-commentary
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“Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under
cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt
in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing
the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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“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 Rousseau, The Social Contract
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“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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“Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which
already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting
their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance,
uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in
concert.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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“If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if
force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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“[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we
prescribe to ourselves is liberty.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
tags: freedom
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