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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau





Birthdate: June 28, 1712
Birthplace: Geneva, Switzerland
Date of Death: July 2, 1778

Occupation: Author, Composer, and Philosopher
Profile: Best known for The Social Contract.

Website: http://www.iep.utm.edu/rousseau/
Number of Quotes: 2





If we take the term in the strict sense, there never has been a real democracy, and there never will be. It is against the natural order for the many to govern and the few to be governed.

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.

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