Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract: Section 235
In place of governing the subjects in order to render them happy, despotism makes them miserable in order to govern them.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) was a Genevan social philosopher. His exerted a profound influence on the social and political thought of the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, including aspects of the French Revolution. Many of his ideas were foundational in the overall development of modern political and educational thought.