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All men are born free, but everywhere they are in chains

All men are born free, but everywhere they are in chains

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Matt Nolan
Jul 10, 2008
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My favourite quote by Rousseau is the title of this post "men are born free, but everywhere they are in chains.

When I was a young boy of 16 I interpreted this with predetermined judgments, namely freedom is good and chains are bad. As a result my feeling was that I should try to break these "chains" and rediscover the freedom I was born with.

In this quo…

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