John Locke Quotes
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Don't tell me what I can't do!
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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.
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What worries you, masters you.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.
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Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
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There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.
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The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our Ideas, existing in the Bodies themselves. They are in Bodies, we denominate from them, only a Power to produce those Sensations in us: And what is Sweet, Blue or Warm in Idea, is but the certain Bulk, Figure, and Motion of the insensible parts in the Bodies themselves, which we call so.
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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Where there is no law there is no freedom.
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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
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Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Who lies for you will lie against you.