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Quotation from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad”
The Social Contract, Book II, Chapter III, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)
Distinguishing the infallibility of the general will from the fallibility of actual deliberation.
Citation: "the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book II, Chapter III, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id the-social-contract-q6)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
