Rousseauian Quotes & Sayings

It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood. — Nicolas Cage

The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future — Edward De Bono

Anxiety and worry work in opposition to inner peace. When you are worried or anxious about something, even something that must be faced and embraced as a process, you leave little room for God's peace. As — Brian Houston

You seem to be in a state of such absolute contradiction that I would not be surprised if your face tore in half. — Mary-Jean Harris

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

Is it Rousseauian fantasy to assert that prehistory was not an unending nightmare? That human nature leans no more toward violence, selfishness, and exploitation than toward peace, generosity, and cooperation? That most of our ancient ancestors probably experienced a sense of communal belonging few of us can imagine today? That human sexuality probably evolved and functioned as a social bonding device and a pleasurable way to avoid and neutralize conflict? — Christopher Ryan

While it is a truism to observe that if humans were angels, law would be unnecessary, we could equally turn the truism around, and note that if humans were devils, law would be pointless. In this sense, the law-making project always presupposes the improvability, if not the perfectibility, of humankind. Whether our view of human nature tends toward Hobbesian grimness or Rousseauian equanimity, we tend to think of law as critical to reducing brutality and violence. — Rosa Brooks