“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat w...” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote

“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”

“All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.”

“I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.”

“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?”

“We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.”

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

“These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.”

“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”

“The Fatherland Liberation War, which the Korean people fought against the haughty U.S. imperialists who had battened on aggression and pillage, was, in fact, a hard fight that could be likened to a bare-handed man versus brigandish robbers.”

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”

“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.”

“After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.”