The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.
We cannot work for others without working for ourselves. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.
Freedom is the power to choose our own chains - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Freedom is the power to choose our own chains
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
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