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Quotation from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they”
The Social Contract, Book I, Chapter I, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)
The opening of the treatise, which sets the problem of legitimacy rather than of origins.
Citation: "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book I, Chapter I, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id the-social-contract-q1)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
