Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Best Discourse on Inequality Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Discourse on Inequality Quotes
“Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.”
“The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!”
“We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Sources
- All quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (60 quotes)
- Confessions (3 quotes)
- Discourse on Inequality (3 quotes)
- Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts (3 quotes)
- Emile or On Education (16 quotes)
- The Social Contract (10 quotes)
- The Social Contract and The Discourses (1 quote)
- Other quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (24 quotes)