“ No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are ba… Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State may be given up for lost. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ Ancient politicians talked incessantly about morality and virtue; our politicians talk only about business and money. One will tell you that in a particular country a man is worth the sum he could be… Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the child is withdrawn or the nurse is dismissed. Her visits to her foster-chil… Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ An unbroken horse erects his mane, paws the ground and starts back impetuously at the sight of the bridle; while one which is properly trained suffers patiently even whip and spur: so savage man will… Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we c… Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control,constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave.The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of… Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
