Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

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About Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.

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Alternative Names: Citizen of Geneva Jean Jacques Rousseau J. J. Rousseau Rousseau J.J. Rousseau JJ Rousseau

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Nadie se atreve ya a parecer lo que es; y en esta coacción perpetua, los hombres que conforman el rebaño llamado sociedad, situados en las mismas circunstancias, harán todos lo mismo si no se lo impiden motivos de fuerza mayor. Por lo tanto, nunca sabremos muy bien con quién nos enfrentamos; para conocer a un amigo será necesario esperar las grandes ocasiones, es decir, esperar el momento en que ya sea tarde, puesto que para esas mismas ocasiones habría sido esencial conocerlo.

For in appearing to use only its rights, the Prince can very easily expand them and, on the pretext of public calm, prevent assemblies intended to restore good order; so that it takes advantage either of a silence that it prevents from being broken, or of the irregularities that it causes to be committed, and to punish those who dare speak.

"Trouver une forme d'association qui défende et protège de toute la force commune la personne et les biens de chaque associé, et par laquelle chacun s'unissant à tous n'obéisse pourtant qu'à lui-même et reste aussi libre qu'auparavant." Tel est le problème fondamental dont le contrat social donne la solution.

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