Friday, August 7, 2009

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Modern History Sourcebook:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discourse on Inequality, No 2

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him . . .

Humanity would have been spared infinite crimes, wars, homicides, murders, if only someone had ripped up the fences or filled in the ditches and said, "Do not listen to this pretender!

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