John Locke Quotes

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.

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• Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Joy
  • Care
  • Expectation

• Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Saying
  • Birth
  • Punishment

• Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

  

  Gary Becker
  • More
  • Punishment
  • Offenders

• Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Stupid
  • Motives

• I'm not a creature of Washington.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Washington
  • Creature

• I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Image
  • Decided
  • Publicity

• A fate is not a punishment.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Fate
  • Punishment

• The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.

  

  Jean Patou
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Creature

• It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Hurt
  • Hunting
  • Creature

• A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Successful

• Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Passion
  • Thought

• There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.

  

  S. S. Van Dine
  • Popular
  • Novel
  • Punishment

• Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.

  

  Elizabeth Fry
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

  

  Aubrey de Vere
  • Time
  • Healing
  • Souls

• Let the punishment fit the crime.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Crime
  • Fit
  • Punishment

• My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Time
  • Punishment
  • Sublime

• Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Cry
  • Ready
  • Motives

• Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Power
  • Protect
  • Punishment

• The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Artist
  • Human
  • Taste

• Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Trust
  • Creature
  • Rush

• I'm proud to acknowledge my debt to the 'Reverend Satchelmouth' ... He is the beginning and the end of music in America

  

  Bing Crosby
  • America
  • Proud
  • Debt

• The White House remains willing to cooperate with the committee, as we have over the past eight months, and to provide information that is responsive to the committee's legitimate oversight and investigative concerns.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • House
  • Past
  • White House

• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Punishment
  • Creature
  • Motives