#de

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#escape #ever #every #every man #fire

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#beings #enterprise #every #fellow #fellow human beings

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#being a man #forgive #i #make #man

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#ceases #desire #heard #his #knowledge

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#body #born #carries #causes #destruction

We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the established inflation target. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#affecting #crisis #delicate #developed #established

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#amazing #audiences #been #bravado #christopher

I mean it allowed me to do that which was fantastic because we really get to see the character mature and deal with some things that are, that I think as an audience member, really pull us in. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#audience #audience member #because #character #deal

I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#bit #cut #first #i #kept

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#kills #solitude