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


Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
ISADORA DUNCAN Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jea...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world h...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau - If birds confabulate or no
WILLIAM COWPER Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this coun...
ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacqu...
SIMON MAINWARING Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
HERBERT MARCUSE Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those wh...
ALDOUS HUXLEY To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the r...
RICHARD MITCHELL Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing hi...
CHARLES BABBAGE If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
MARY ASTELL If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
MARY ASTELL War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, other...
HERACLITUS Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their ...
THOMAS CLARKSON We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out
WINSTON CHURCHILL We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Free yourself from mental slavery. Break those invisible chains your masters put on your spiritual n...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES The Underground Railroad refers to a loosely organized network of free blacks, slaves, whites, and s...
CAROL LLOYD Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he ...
CALVIN PEETE The gospel according to Jean Jacques.
THOMAS CARLYLE The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who beli...
C. JOYBELL C. The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are
JOSH BILLINGS Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who h...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.
GEORGE ALEXIOU None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON They are not free who drag their chains after them
FRENCH PROVERB How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I...
JIM MORRISON How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I...
JIM MORRISON Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are th...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We are masters of our characters and in turn, slaves of their outgrowth.
MOHAMMED ALI BAPIR A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of c...
THIRUVALLUVAR How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. T...
ANTHONY RYAN The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free o...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Those who are free from corruption are only those who haven’t been born yet.
VIKRANT PARSAI Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not tr...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity....
ANDY WARHOL I have always been interested in this THOMAS A. EDISON The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.
IDRIES SHAH Automobiles are unreliable and dangerous slaves. They frequently revolt and kill their masters. I ha...
MICHAEL D. O'BRIEN What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest o...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisu...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS If you are better than all others, then you are greater than all those.
VIKRANT PARSAI The glowing Ruby should adorn Those who in warm July are born, Then will they be exempt and fr...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Freedom of mind is the real freedom.
A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in c...
B.R. AMBEDKAR I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all me...
BENJAMIN F. WADE He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.
WILLIAM COWPER The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than o...
CRISS JAMI This (donor walls) is a way to give kind of a high profile to those who have donated to the park. Wh...
CURT BUCHHOLTZ The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themsel...
JOHN BERGER Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free...
BRIAN SELZNICK The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own t...
FANNY KEMBLE People have a much greater chance of finding something they’ll enjoy doing and making those greate...
LUKASZ LANIECKI People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by other...
BLAISE PASCAL Those who understand others are intelligent. Those who understand themselves are enlightened. Those ...
LAO TZU They say that some are born to lead, and others to follow, but I believe that there are also those w...
JUSTIN APPEL There is no greater joy as an educator than witnessing students meet and exceed expectations that ar...
BENJAMIN L. STEWART In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolu...
PAUL GAUGUIN The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they h...
ALBERT EINSTEIN By being hesitant to voice the truth for fear of upsetting others, we make those others our masters ...
SHAFEEQ QURESHI Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And ther...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived b...
ERIC HOFFER The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived b...
ERIC HOFFER Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: "They do not like cats because the cat is fr...
ROBERT ZARETSKY Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who ...
PLUTARCH (Solon) being asked, namely, what city was best to live in, "That city," he replied, "in which those...
PLUTARCH People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by t...
BLAISE PASCAL People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by o...
BLAISE PASCAL None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE God helps and also remembers those who help others before they help themselves.
VIKRANT PARSAI The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free...
WOODROW WILSON America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free...
WOODROW T. WILSON None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacri...
CRISS JAMI Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partne...
EDMUND BURKE The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about and ser...
ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN Masters" are those who have simply started to see the difference in what they have learned and are y...
ALAN B JONES The most amazing people are those who love themselves truly and love others endlessly.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB The best way to control slaves is to convince them they are free.
SEAN KEVIN SWEENEY Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slav...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON

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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive eno...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Truth is no road to fortune
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather ser...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specif...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU God made me and broke the mold.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the ric...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I l...
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 gi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve en...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and ...
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