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Book: The Social Contract
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ The Social Contract
Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ The Social Contract
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.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ The Social Contract
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."
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ The Social Contract
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}
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ The Social Contract
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.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ The Social Contract
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ The Social Contract
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.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ The Social Contract
Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." {Bk2:8}
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ The Social Contract
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.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ The Social Contract
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.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ The Social Contract
There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ The Social Contract
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.
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