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Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Kristan Higgins

THE LAST TIME my husband and I had sex, I fell asleep. Not after. During. — Kristan Higgins

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Dwight D. Eisenhower

I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them. If they attempt to shake off the yoke, they still more estrange themselves from freedom, as, by mistaking for it an unbridled license to which it is diametrically opposed, they nearly always manage, by their revolutions, to hand themselves over to seducers, who only make their chains heavier than before. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery, while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Haruki Murakami

Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it's true - all civilization is the product of a fenced-in lack of freedom. The Australian Aborigines are the exception, though. They managed to maintain a fenceless civilization until the seventeenth century. They're dyed-in-the-wool free. They go where they want, when they want, doing what they want. Their lives are a literal journey. Walkabout is a perfect metaphor for their lives. When the English came and built fences to pen in their cattle, the Aborigines couldn't fathom it. And, ignorant to the end of the principle at work, they were classified as dangerous and antisocial and were driven away, to the outback. So I want you to be careful. The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself. — Haruki Murakami

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The more I study the works of men in their institutions, the more clearly I see that, in their efforts after independence, they become slaves, and that their very freedom is wasted in vain attempts to assure its continuance. That they may not be carried away by the flood of things, they form all sorts of attachments; then as soon as they wish to move forward they are surprised to find that everything drags them back. It seems to me that to set oneself free we need do nothing, we need only continue to desire freedom. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Haruki Murakami

Perhaps," Oshima says, as if fed up. "Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real bind. You'd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free." "Including you?" "Yeah. I prefer being unfree, too. Up to a point. Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it's true - all civilization is the product of a fenced-in lack of freedom. — Haruki Murakami

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Christian Slater

I do have a Twitter account, and there's a woman at my agency who got that all set up for me. I don't know how many followers I have. It's not one of those things I check on a regular basis. — Christian Slater

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Peter Kreeft

You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint. — Peter Kreeft

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Edward Bok

The price of success: hard work, patience, and a few sacrifices. — Edward Bok

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The word 'slavery' and 'right' are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You will never be free as long as there remains one Russian soldier in Poland and your freedom will always be threatened as long as Russia interferes in your affairs. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By 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. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By John Mayer

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen. — John Mayer

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All ran to meet their chains thinking they secured their freedom, for although they had enough reason to feel the advantages of political establishment, they did not have enough experience to foresee its dangers. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Quotes By Leonard Cohen

And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion — Leonard Cohen