Discourse on
Inequality. "As
we trace the march of inequality in these various
revolutions, we find that the establishment of law and the right
of property was the first stage, the institution of the magistrate
the second, and the transformation of legitimate into arbitrary
power the third and last. Thus, the status of rich and poor
was sanctioned in the first age, that of strong and weak in
the second, and in the third that of master and slave, the
ultimate degree of inequality to which all the others at last lead
until new revolutions dissolve the government altogether
or bring it closer to legitimacy."1a
AUGUSTINE
PAINE
RAND
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The Social
Contract.
"Man was born free,
and everywhere he is in chains."2a
PLATO
VOLTAIRE
"
. . . [T]rue democracy has never existed and
never will."2b
PASCAL
"The political
body, like the human, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries
within it the causes of its own destruction."2c
FREUD
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*
Italics in the original.
1
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1712-1778). Discourse on the
Origin of Inequality.
Translated by Franklin Philip. Edited with an Introduction
by Patrick Coleman. Franklin Philip, 1994. Patrick
Coleman, 1994. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1994.
a
Part II, at 78-79.
2
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau. Discourse on Political
Economy and The Social Contract.
Translated with Introduction and Notes by Christopher
Betts. Christopher Betts, 1994. Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press, 1994.
a
Book I, at 45.
b
Book III, at 101.
c
Book III, at 121.
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