Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWith children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe word โslaveryโ and โrightโ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau