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Quetzacoatl85 t1_j0twylr wrote

Reply to comment by ichigo2862 in [image] Experience never goes wasted by _Cautious_Memory

I was also wondering why we're quoting some celebrity who quotes what "a wise man" said; why not quote that wise man directly?

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StatmanIbrahimovic t1_j0wi33n wrote

To be fair, the original source of the "eat the rich" line is a third party account of the President of the Paris Commune, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, delivering a speech in 1793 in which he said:

>Rousseau faisait parti du peuple aussi, et il disait: 'Quand le peuple n'aura plus rien à manger, il mangera le riche.'

>Rousseau, who was also one of the people, said: 'When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.'

No account of philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau saying it exists.

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