A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
JOHN LOCKEError is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
More John Locke Quotes
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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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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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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Slavery 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.
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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