In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
JOHN LOCKEHe that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
More John Locke Quotes
-
-
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
JOHN LOCKE -
And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
JOHN LOCKE -
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
JOHN LOCKE -
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
JOHN LOCKE -
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
JOHN LOCKE -
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
JOHN LOCKE -
In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
JOHN LOCKE -
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 LOCKE -
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.
JOHN LOCKE -
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.
JOHN LOCKE -
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
JOHN LOCKE -
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
JOHN LOCKE -
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
JOHN LOCKE -
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
JOHN LOCKE -
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
JOHN LOCKE