Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ture awaits us and our descendants if humanity’s attitude towards nature and the planet does not fundamentally change. We need a new social contract (Rousseau), but also a natural contract (Natural Contract - Michel Serra) based on which we will treat nature as a partner! The second set of reforms would cov

ational roots and experience, we are ready to assume the responsibilities of building consensus and acting for peace. As the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau said, man can make his happiness only by working for that of others. We stand ready to get to work.

tile seeds for consensus, understanding and peaceful coexistence. Let us resist the temptation of isolationism and rule of force, for as Jean-Jacques Rousseau rightly said in The Social Contract': The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into law, and obedi

evere financial crisis. Certainly, our Organization has the necessary ambition to express at the global level that general resolve which Jean-Jacques Rousseau said is more than the simple addition of individual interests. But the sum total will be all the greater and all the more universal as the contributi

rstood that an independent Algeria was the best guarantee of sound and durable relations between the two countries; The France of Descartes, Diderot, Rousseau, Victor Hugo and others, the France of the French Revolution, has won an undisputed victory over the false and odious image which an insignificant mi

d in the war of 1914, and which to this day is making its incursions into international affairs? I am reminded of the statement of a great Frenchman, Rousseau, who said that the strongest is never strong enough to be always master unless he transfers strength into right and obedience into duty. 143. The pol

tter to continue living with an imperfect Charter which in fact serves to maintain peace, rather than to return to that primitive state of nature, as Rousseau called it, where there was no other law than that of the strongest. 40. The concept of subject and ruling nations does not. reflect the position in t

d the right to self-determination, to decide their own fate. 35. The right to membership in the United Nations is one of the rights that Jean-Jacques Rousseau or Locke, had they thought of it, would have called a natural right. But it is a right, a legal concept, which is of as much interest to the United N