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 LOCKEI have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
More John Locke Quotes
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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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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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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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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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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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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