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
  • Creature
  • Washington

• 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

• Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Man
  • Punishment
  • Admits

• Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Violence
  • Organization

• There is no question of us going to war in Iran. Why? Because it's not going to resolve the issue.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Why
  • War
  • Question

• By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Practice
  • Risk
  • Fail

• Chamdi is always uncomfortable when he asks for something. Each morning, all the children collect in this prayer room and, instead of praying, they close their eyes and make demands. Chamdi does not feel this is real prayer. To him, real prayer means sending a bright thought, like "Thank you" or "I love you", too heaven. That is prayer. The moment you ask for something, the prayer room becomes a marketplace.

  

  Anosh Irani
  • Prayer
  • Ask
  • Demands

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

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Punishment
  • Creature
  • Motives