Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The greatest good is not wealth, but liberty.

The more I study books, the more I am convinced that man has never been truly educated.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

We are born weak, we need strength; we are born destitute of everything, we need assistance; we are born stupid, we need judgment.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be worthy of happiness.

The true founder of civil society was the first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him.

The most dangerous of all enterprises is to make a man of a child.

I have no other guide than my conscience.

The only natural authority is that of the father over his children.

The progress of the sciences and arts has done more to corrupt morals than to improve them.

It is not in the nature of things for the majority to govern and for the minority to be governed.

The greatest good is not to be rich, but to be free.

The child should be left to develop naturally, without undue interference from adults.

The state is a moral person whose life is in the union of its members.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Those who think themselves masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

The social order is a sacred right which serves as the basis of all other rights.

The true citizen is one who participates in the general will.

The most important, the most useful rule of all education is not to gain time, but to lose it.

The greatest good for the greatest number.

The voice of conscience is the voice of God.