Censorship is crucial for preserving morals but useless for restoring them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Censorship is crucial for preserving morals but useless for restoring them.
In the original French
Il suit de là que la censure peut être util pour conserver les moeurs, jamais pour les rétablir.
The Social Contract · 1762
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings, translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin Classics, 2012, bk. 4, ch. 7.
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique [On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Law]. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1762, bk. 4, ch. 7.
