Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
JOHN LOCKEChildren should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
More John Locke Quotes
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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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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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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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.
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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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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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