Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
Jean-Jacques RousseauPeople in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
Jean-Jacques RousseauPlants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau