Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Man is everywhere still in chains.

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

The very idea that human beings are held in bondage is sickening.

There is no freedom in peaceful slavery.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.

When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Connivance is the relaxation of slavery, not the definition of liberty.

Slavery is the cause of treason and sustains it everywhere it exists.