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Jean Jacques Rousseau photo

“Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man”

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher

Jean Jacques Rousseau photo

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher

Source: Emile or On Education

Jean Jacques Rousseau photo

“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau book The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

Jean Jacques Rousseau photo

“To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher

Camille Paglia photo

“We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 232

Kenneth N. Waltz photo

“Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.”

Kenneth N. Waltz book Man, the State, and War

Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter VII, Some Implications Of The Third Image, p. 188