Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
JOHN LOCKEDon’t tell me what I can’t do!
JOHN LOCKE[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.
JOHN LOCKEThe Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
JOHN LOCKEThat which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
JOHN LOCKEWhen 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 LOCKEThe mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
JOHN LOCKEWords, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
JOHN LOCKEThere cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
JOHN LOCKECuriosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
JOHN LOCKEIf you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
JOHN LOCKEThe body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
JOHN LOCKEWhen ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
JOHN LOCKEIs it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
JOHN LOCKEWho are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
JOHN LOCKENothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
JOHN LOCKENot time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
JOHN LOCKE