Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Slaves, obey your masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ.

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants.

Christians are disbelievers for believing in the divinity of Christ.

Dependence begets subservience and venality.

Do not deliver yourself up as a slave to any man.

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

All religion is slavery.

This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.

It is not serving, but servility, that is menial.

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.

In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

This is the fantasy of every woman - to hold at our feet servile and tame slaves, like in Roman times. And the worse we treat them, the more passionate they become.