John Locke Quotes

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage...

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• Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Money
  • Done
  • Home

• I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Think
  • College
  • Better

• When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Food
  • Generosity

• I love my sleep.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • I Love

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Country
  • Hell
  • Go

• I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

  

  T-Pain
  • Car
  • Made
  • Radio

• What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Republican
  • Offensive

• What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Music
  • Remember
  • You

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Play
  • Bible
  • Video Games

• When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Band

• I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Just

• I have a love for boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Boxing

• The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Law
  • Government
  • Foundation

• Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

  

  Edmund White
  • Money
  • Always
  • Ambitious

• True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Real
  • True

• Many of us take better care of our automobiles than we do our own bodies... yet the auto has replaceable parts.

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • Auto

• I'll work as long as I can. I'm happy with my life.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• I love coming to Detroit. First getting to be buddies with Kid Rock in the beginning, and him being really great to us, showing us love, the love of the city. I feel like it's our city now, too.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • City
  • Like

• Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

  

  Ovid
  • You
  • Victory
  • Crown

• And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage...

  

  John Locke Nazareth
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