Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Still
  • Medium
  • Pen

• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Parents
  • Passion

• It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Work
  • Home
  • Movie

• When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Celebrity
  • Athlete
  • Gymnastics

• No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • She
  • Woman
  • Sexy

• The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • I Can

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.

  

  Ofra Haza
  • Life
  • Important
  • Remember

• You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • You
  • Everything
  • Insight

• Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Party
  • Better
  • Communist

• More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Lost

• There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Art
  • Happy

• In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • War
  • Army
  • Egypt

• How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Beautiful
  • Right
  • Expression

• Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • You
  • Opportunity
  • Equal

• It was weird working with all of them - Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris. There's a sequence in the movie where myself and Jean-Claude Van Damme are running through this airport and there's this silhouette behind this big screen - it smashes, and there you see Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and Bruce Willis all firing their weapons at me and Jean-Claude. It's kind of surreal when you think about it, the three '80s icons of action movies, unloading as many bullets as they could at us. It's pretty crazy.

  

  Scott Adkins
  • Thinking
  • Action
  • Running

• I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Best

• I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Environment

• As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Common
  • Property
  • Labour

• The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Government
  • Resources
  • Property

• Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Liberty
  • Common
  • Protect