May 2, 2012
I notice that these people who are so easy-going about public injustices are always those who make the most noise at the least injury done to them, and that they stand by their philosophy only so long as they have no need of it for themselves. They resemble that Irishman who did not want to get out of bed although the house was on fire. "The house is burning," they yelled to him. "What difference does it make to me?" he answered, "I am only renting it." Finally, the fire reached him. Immediately, he bounded out, ran, screamed, and became disturbed. He began to understand that sometimes we must take an interest in the house in which we live even though it does not belong to us.
Rousseau - Politics and the Arts
Posted by amin at May 2, 2012 2:44 PM