Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes about Abuse

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That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abuse, Arise, Ennui

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Believe, Book, Abuse

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.450, Basic Books

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Equality, Practice, Abuse

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1791). “An Inquiry into the Nature of the Social Contract; or principles of political right. Translated from the French”, p.147

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes about Abuse

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