Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

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

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

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

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

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

Liberty is the greatest blessing that men enjoy, and slavery is the heaviest curse that human nature is capable of …. those who are governed at the will of another, and whose property may be taken from them...without their consent...are in the miserable condition 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.

Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom.

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.

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

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

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

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

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.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

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.

I can say with truth mine is a situation of dignified slavery.