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Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Portrait after a picture by Maurice Quentin de La Tour (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer

1712–1778

16 quotes, most often on Liberty, Laws and Love. Part of the Philosophers collection.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
The Social Contract (1762), Book III, Chapter XVIn context
- Laws
Every law the people has not ratified in person is null and void⁠—is, in fact, not a law.
The Social Contract (1762), Book III, Chapter XVIn context
- Democracy
- Laws
The inflexibility of the laws, which prevents them from adapting themselves to circumstances, may, in certain cases, render them disastrous, and make them bring about, at a time of crisis, the ruin of the State.
The Social Contract (1762), Book IV, Chapter VIIn context
- Laws

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