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.
JOHN LOCKEHe 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.
JOHN LOCKEGovernment has no other end, but the preservation of property.
JOHN LOCKETruth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
JOHN LOCKEWho are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
JOHN LOCKEThe only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKEFirmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
JOHN LOCKEError is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
JOHN LOCKEI have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
JOHN LOCKEIn 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 LOCKESo that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
JOHN LOCKEWhen ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
JOHN LOCKEWords, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
JOHN LOCKEIt is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
JOHN LOCKEA 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 LOCKEThere cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
JOHN LOCKEAnd 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