Locke Second Treatise Quotes

To narrow natural rights to such neat slogans as "liberty, equality, fraternity" or "life, liberty, property," . . . was to ignore the complexity of public affairs and to leave out of consideration most moral relationships. . . .

Burke appealed back beyond Locke to an idea of community far warmer and richer than Locke's or Hobbes's aggregation of individuals. The true compact of society, Burke told his countrymen, is eternal: it joins the dead, the living, and the unborn. We all participate in this spiritual and social partnership, because it is ordained of God. In defense of social harmony, Burke appealed to what Locke had ignored: the love of neighbor and the sense of duty. By the time of the French Revolution, Locke's argument in the Second Treatise already had become insufficient to sustain a social order. . . .

The Constitution is not a theoretical document at all, and the influence of Locke upon it is negligible, although Locke's phrases, at least, crept into the Declaration of Independence, despite Jefferson's awkwardness about confessing the source of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

If we turn to the books read and quoted by American leaders near the end of the eighteenth century, we discover that Locke was but one philosopher and political advocate among the many writers whose influence they acknowledged. . . .

Even Jefferson, though he had read Locke, cites in his Commonplace Book such juridical authorities ~ Russell Kirk

The philosophy of the Declaration, that government is set up by the people to secure their life, liberty, and happiness, and is to be overthrown when it no longer does that, is often traced to the ideas of John Locke, in his Second Treatise on Government. That was published in England in 1689, when the English were rebelling against tyrannical kings and setting up parliamentary government. The Declaration, like Locke's Second Treatise, talked about government and political rights, but ignored the existing inequalities in property. And how could people truly have equal rights, with stark differences in wealth? ~ Howard Zinn

The Republic of Plato is also the first treatise upon education, of which the writings of Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants. ~ Plato

Second guesses in putting are fatal. ~ Bobby Locke

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else. ~ John Locke

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century. ~ Michael Graves

He was kryptonite sprinkled on pizza, my personal weakness ~ Tembi Locke

[E]veryone is orthodox to himself… ~ John Locke

business of man is to be happy, ~ John Locke

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. ~ John Locke

Making laws with penalties of death, and consequently ~ John Locke

It is a waste of energy to not just be happy. ~ Adriana Locke

There's always a random element to taking lives. ~ John Locke

All wealth is the product of labor. ~ John Locke

trust those that have proven their loyalty. ~ Adriana Locke

Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you. ~ John Locke

Cancer not only seeps into your body, it melts in your consciousness. ~ Adriana Locke

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants. ~ John Locke

The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe. ~ John Locke

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything. ~ John Locke

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven. ~ John Locke

Mothering, she learned the hard way, was about loss as well as love. ~ Attica Locke

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves. ~ John Locke

My blood roasts my veins at her thinly-veiled insinuations. ~ Adriana Locke

going away with a guy I don't know for a few days seems . . . extreme?" "And ~ Adriana Locke

he is quite possibly a piece of perfection with every bit of an eight-inch, thick cock. ~ Adriana Locke

I close my eyes, take a deep breath, and let it out completely, along with my soul. ~ John Locke

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine. ~ John Locke

Logic is the anatomy of thought. ~ John Locke

It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it."
"Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'"
"Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo.
"The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ... "
" ... is Locke ... "
" ... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ... "
" ... and fifty thousand cheering spectators. ~ Scott Lynch

Beasts abstract not. ~ John Locke

Personal Identity depends on Consciousness not on Substance ~ John Locke

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning. ~ John Locke

Such audacity could never be faked - Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth. ~ Scott Lynch

That's so rare. Wanting to feel safe doesn't mean I'm weak or can't take care of myself. ~ Katherine Locke

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making. ~ John Locke

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind. ~ John Locke

I remember that the afternoon light was another passenger in the car, witnessing two lives in motion. ~ Tembi Locke

Our happiness is made up of the things we miss. ~ William John Locke

men's actions are the best guides to their thoughts ~ John Locke

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone ~ John Locke

I'm a demon. I do bad things. It's genetic. ~ I.D. Locke

Don't let your mouth buy something your ass can't pay for. ~ Adriana Locke

Try all things, hold fast that which is good. ~ John Locke

Cooking is about surrender. ~ Tembi Locke

He had forgotten that the most elemental instinct in human nature is not hate but love, the former inextricably linked to the latter. ~ Attica Locke

Loving her is so damn easy. It's as natural as breathing or the beating of a heart. ~ Adriana Locke

You shouldn't try to play games with me because I'm not a player, I'm the coach."
~ Cane ~ Adriana Locke

My skin still sings from his touch. His cologne lingers on my shirt, the air kissed by his presence. ~ Adriana Locke

He that takes away Reason to make way for Revelation puts out the Light of both , as one who pokes out eye to see . ~ John Locke

Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats. ~ Scott Lynch

There shall come a day when you forget about the world's worries, and join the good life. We'll be waiting for you. ~ Locke Winters

Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men's opinions are superficial and confused. ~ John Locke

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits. ~ John Locke

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. ~ John Locke

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time. ~ John Locke

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. ~ John Locke

I was in a strip club trying to help a ghost get laid which was challenging, but not impossible. ~ A.J. Locke

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state. ~ John Locke

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ~ John Locke

The trick in life is to hang out until the miracles come. ~ Attica Locke

Truths are not the better nor the worse for their obviousness or difficulty, but their value is to be measured by their usefulness and tendency. ~ John Locke

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all. ~ John Locke

God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man. ~ John Locke

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. ~ John Locke

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it. ~ John Locke

If you take you away from me, you take everything. ~ Adriana Locke

It is only practice that improves our minds as well as bodies, and we must expect nothing from our understandings any farther than they are perfected by habits. ~ John Locke

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?"
"One that has something better," said Locke. ~ Scott Lynch

Pearl swallowed hard. "I thought you were going to stay away." His voice sounded just as strangled as hers. "I tried. ~ Afton Locke

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China. ~ Gary Locke

You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes. ~ Bobby Locke

If your father says 'Bark like a dog,' I say 'What breed, Your Honor? ~ Scott Lynch

finer than he ever had. He wore a white lab coat, overlaid with a faint haze of blue sexual energy, and did he usually have that many shirt ~ Afton Locke

If someone else around you has motivation for you to do well, you don't need to develop your own motivation. ~ Judith Locke

You cannot cure racism with more racism. ~ Edwin A. Locke

Don't talk about it. Be about it. ~ Adriana Locke

Best practices usually aren't. ~ Christopher Locke

and used it to propel her tightening pussy back onto another deep thrust. She felt herself stretch in every direction, pulling aside curled flesh and exposing raw, electric nerves that might have sent ~ Afton Locke

God hath woven into the principles of human nature such a tenderness for their off-spring, that there is little fear that parents should use their power with too much rigour; ~ John Locke

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight. ~ John Locke

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example. ~ John Locke

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. ~ John Locke

We go now," said Locke, "or I leave you here to die. Understanding is a luxury; you don't get to have it. Sorry. ~ Scott Lynch

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding. ~ John Locke

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts. ~ John Locke

If [American Idol] was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race. ~ Kimberley Locke

Love isn't the words you use to say it, but the actions you take to prove it's true. ~ Adriana Locke

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. ~ John Locke

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them. ~ John Locke

Not time is the measure of movement but: ... each constant periodic appearance of ideas. ~ John Locke

It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you. ~ William John Locke

When I look at you, I don't just see the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. I see the next sixty years of my life. ~ Adriana Locke

Don't tell me what I can't do! ~ John Locke

In the beginning, all the world was America. ~ John Locke

I keep asking myself," whispered Sabetha, giving Locke's arm a squeeze, "ARE we smarter than that woman's chicken?"
"At the moment, it's an open question," said Locke. ~ Scott Lynch

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. ~ John Locke

Jean," Locke gasped out during a brief lull between spasms of retching, "next time I conceive a plan like this, consider putting a hatchet in my skull."
"Hardly efficacious." Jean swapped a full bucket for an empty one and gave Locke a friendly pat on the back. "Dulling my nice sharp blades on a skull as thick as yours ... ~ Scott Lynch

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty. ~ John Locke

Saro's love, his life and his loss had forged me, softening me to life and strengthening me in the broken places. ~ Tembi Locke