Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
JOHN LOCKEMoral 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Truth 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.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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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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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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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.
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