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

• There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • I Believe

• And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Possibilities
  • Creature
  • Flourish

• So far, the actual actions taken have been relatively modest, but there is some hope, I think, that, going forward, these actions will advance further and we will see more progress in the current account.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Hope
  • Taken
  • Progress

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

  

  John Locke Nazareth
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