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Quotation from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“If any one, after publicly recognising these dogmas, behaves as if he does not believe them, let him be punished by death: he has committed the worst of all crimes, that of lying before the law”
The Social Contract, Book IV, Chapter VIII, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)
The harshest provision of the civil religion chapter.
Citation: "If any one, after publicly recognising these dogmas, behaves as if he does not believe them, let him be punished by death: he has committed the worst of all crimes, that of lying before the law" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book IV, Chapter VIII, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id the-social-contract-q13)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
