Author of quotes: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Page 1

The language of the mind will be heard if it passes through the heart.

All governments based on violence fall into a ridiculous contradiction: while wanting to keep peoples in a state of weakness, they themselves want to become strong with their help.

If the goal of war is the destruction of a hostile state, then the other side has the right to exterminate its defenders as long as they hold weapons, but as soon as they abandon them and surrender, they cease to be enemies or tools in the hands of enemies and again become just people whose lives are not allowed to be taken away by anyone.

A lie has an infinite number of combinations, whereas the truth is only one.

Not walls and not the people constitute the country, do the laws, manners, customs, Government, the Constitution, all of this is due to the way of life.

Christianity preaches only slavery and dependence. Its spirit is too favourable to tyranny that it is constantly, it is not used.

The will can not be present; or is it, or is it the other will, nothing happens. The deputies of the people thus are not and cannot be its representatives. They are only its commissioners. As soon as the people gives itself Representatives, it is no longer free, it is no more.

The better constituted the state, the more in the minds of citizens concerns public give him the advantage over personal concerns. There's even a much less personal worries, because the amount of common good is a more significant part of the good of each individual, the latter have less to achieve it by their own efforts.

People are lazy by nature, but the desire to work is the first fruit of a well-ordered society; and if the nation falls into a state of laziness and indifference, it is again because of the injustice of the society which is not attached longer work the price it deserves.

This, I think, a small sacrifice to give up part, if you're sure you have it all.

Only great events make great men.

Shy by nature, in my youth I was bold, but in adulthood - never. The more I saw the light, the less able to adapt to his tone.

I never so much thought, lived so hard, so not worried, was not, so to speak, so himself, as during his travels committed by me on foot and alone.

If there are circumstances in which a strict attitude to children has become a necessity, that when threatened their morality or when there is a bad habit that must be eradicated.