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Quotation from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“To yield to force is an act of necessity, not of will--at the most, an act of prudence. In what sense can it be a duty”
The Social Contract, Book I, Chapter III, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)
Rousseau's refutation of the 'right of the strongest'.
Citation: "To yield to force is an act of necessity, not of will--at the most, an act of prudence. In what sense can it be a duty" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book I, Chapter III, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id the-social-contract-q2)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
