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Jean-Jacques
Rousseau
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QUOTE: “Again, every rogue who
criminously attacks social rights becomes, by his wrong, a rebel and a traitor to
his fatherland. By contravening its laws, he ceases to be one of its citizens:
he even wages war against it. In such circumstances, the State and he cannot
both be saved: one or the other must perish. In killing the criminal, we
destroy not so much a citizen as an enemy. The trial and judgements are proofs
that he has broken the Social Contract, and so is no longer a member of the
State.” [J.J. Rousseau's The Social Contract written in
1762]
AUTHOR: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Geneva, 28 June 1712
– Ermenonville, 2 July 1778) was a major Genevois philosopher, writer, and
composer of the 18th-century Enlightenment. His political philosophy influenced
the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational
thought.
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