There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
JOHN LOCKETis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
More John Locke Quotes
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Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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