Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes

#1. People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat
that's the only moral they know.

Dany Laferriere

#2. To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#3. 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

#4. [T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. There's a lot of sex. But it isn't about sex.

Peter Milligan

#6. To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery, while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#7. Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#8. When the pain and sadness brought me to a breaking point, I would cry, and although my tears didn't change the circumstances, they lightened the burden and enabled me to get up and go on again.

Terry Caffey

#9. I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#10. The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#11. It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.

Willa Cather

#12. Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Anaxagoras

#13. One or two is early enough for a person who lies till ten.

Emily Bronte

#14. You will never be free as long as there remains one Russian soldier in Poland and your freedom will always be threatened as long as Russia interferes in your affairs.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#15. I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#16. Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

C.S. Lewis

#17. There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#18. I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#19. The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers.

Eric Schneiderman

#20. Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#21. All ran to meet their chains thinking they secured their freedom, for although they had enough reason to feel the advantages of political establishment, they did not have enough experience to foresee its dangers.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#22. Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#23. Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#24. 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

#25. What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended.

Alexandre Dumas

#26. It's very rare you get a director who's that invested in the actors. So yeah, when 'Little Fish' came around, there wasn't much negotiation!

Martin Henderson

#27. Oh, good. Okay, I'd like to get more sleep before I have to figure out how we find a Sith Lord in Washington.

Gini Koch

#28. Those who are not faeries find comfort in lies. I cannot judge that.

Cassandra Clare

#29. The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau