To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
John LockeParents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John LockeAll 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.
John LockeThe people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
John LockeProbability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error.
John Locke