Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

If it is decreed that I should go down because of this speech, then let me go down linked to the truth—let me die in the advocacy of what is just and right.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

To lay down one's life for the truth.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

If I see something right, I say so.

We have to stand for the truth.

I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

Death always before dishonor. (Julian)

Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.