There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
JOHN LOCKESlavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
More John Locke Quotes
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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Tis 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.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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