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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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