Jean-Jacques Rousseau Evil Quotations

Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

By doing good we become good.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.