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“Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Base souls have no faith in great individuals.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I only see clearly what I remember.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.”
Keith Richards
“Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.”
Keith Richards
“I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.”
Keith Richards
“Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.”
Keith Richards
“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.”
Keith Richards
“Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.”
Keith Richards
“I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.”
Keith Richards
“It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.”
Keith Richards
“I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.”
Keith Richards
“You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.”
Keith Richards
“It's good to be anywhere.”
Keith Richards
“I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.”
Keith Richards
