Nazareth Quotes
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All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.
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Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
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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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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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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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Don't tell me what I can't do!
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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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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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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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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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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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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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Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others.
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Who lies for you will lie against you.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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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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Where there is no law there is no freedom.
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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
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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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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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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.