The Social Contract and Discourses Quotes

“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourses

“It is not owing to stupidity that they have preferred other forms of exercise to those of the mind.”
― John T. Scott, The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two Discourses and the Social Contract

“All Demosthenes’ eloquence could never revive a body that luxury and the arts had enervated”
― John T. Scott, The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two Discourses and the Social Contract

“Every free action has two causes which concur in producing it, one moral, namely the will which determines it, the other physical, namely the power which executes it.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau, THE SOCIAL CONTRACT & DISCOURSES

“Savage man, once he has eaten, is at peace with all of nature and the friend of all his fellow humans. Is”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two Discourses and the Social Contract