Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Work
  • Help
  • Trouble

• I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • School
  • Wish

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• I am surrounded by great people.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Great

• I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Need

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Leader

• Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • You
  • Hammer
  • Toilet

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• The verdict of the world is conclusive.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Verdict
  • Conclusive

• Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
  • Building
  • Blossom

• I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Feel

• The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Great
  • Business

• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Change
  • Living
  • Grow

• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Married
  • Morality
  • Ancestors

• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • History
  • Doubt
  • Unique

• I'm not a vegetarian.

  

  Carol Alt

• Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Freedom
  • Spiritual

• The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long
  • Power

• Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • Kids
  • Power
  • Disappointment

• We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Time
  • Power
  • Bad

• Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Chains