Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Slavery
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Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.
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The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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.
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