List of Henri Rousseau Quotes

If A King Tries To Start A War, A Mother Should Go To Him And Forbid It.

The Severity Of Penalties Is Only A Vain Resource, Invented By Little Minds In Order To Substitute Terror For That Respect Which They Have No Means Of Obtaining.

The Passage From The State Of Nature To The Civil State Produces A Very Remarkable Change In Man, By Substituting Justice For Instinct In His Conduct.

Politeness Requires This Thing; Decorum That; Ceremony Has Its Forms, And Fashion Its Laws, And These Must Always Follow, Never The Promptings Of Our Own Nature.

Hatred As Well As Love, Renders Its Votaries Credulous.

The Principal Problem I Had During The Five Years I Ran The Caisse - And I Bet You That It Will Be The Same Problem For My Successor - Is The Retention, Recruitment And Training Of Competent Personnel.

I Cannot Now Change My Style, Which I Acquired, As You Can Imagine, By Dint Of Labour.

Little Privations Are Easily Endured When The Heart Is Better Treated Than The Body.

The First Man To Fence In A Piece Of Land, Saying "this Is Mine" And Who Found People Simple Enough To Believe Him, Was The Real Founder Of Civil Society.

It Is Not The Criminal Things Which Are Hardest To Confess, But The Ridiculous And Shameful.

The Happiest Is He Who Suffers The Least Pain; The Most Miserable, He Who Enjoys The Least Pleasure.

If It Is Reason That Forms Man Then It Is The Emotions That Guide Her.