Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Society

“Society is not created by the crowd.”

“Men are depraved and perverted by society.”

“In human society man is the chief tool of man.”

“Money is the source of all the false ideas of society.”

“Society must be studied in the individual and the individual in society.”

“Society is so general and so mixed there is no place left for retirement, and even in the home we live in public.”

“There are two kinds of dependence: dependence on things, which is the work of nature; and dependence on men, which is the work of society.”

“Society has enfeebled man, not merely by robbing him of the right to his own strength, but still more by making his strength insufficient for his needs.”