black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Who are we to tell anyone what they can or 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 LOCKE

Blood Men Thinking
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
JOHN LOCKE

Reason Titles Two
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
JOHN LOCKE

Positive Things Shadow
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
JOHN LOCKE

Amendment Liberty Reason Second
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
JOHN LOCKE

Faith Inspiration Reason
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

Arbitrary Freedom Legislator People War
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
JOHN LOCKE

Day Differences Labor May
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Age Gretest Mischie World
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE

Education Philosophical Wisdom
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
JOHN LOCKE

Doctrine Giving Way
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
JOHN LOCKE

Oppression People
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
JOHN LOCKE

Appetite Children Curiosity
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Men Philosophical
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 LOCKE

Balance Law Punishment
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
JOHN LOCKE

Ignorance Use Wonder
Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
JOHN LOCKE

Evil Karma Men

Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Locke Quotes