Locke Quote by Charles River Editors

“Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of wisdom and…

— John Adams

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

— Bertrand Russell

“Classical theorists (foremost John Locke, a British philosopher greatly admired by the founders) captured the predicament in the idea of a preconstitutional “state of…

— Michael S. Greve

“Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“I want you to know...that you can trust me." John locked eyes with her and was instantly transported to a different plane of existence.…

— J.R. Ward

What higher property do you have than your own person? I totally agree, by the way, with John Locke's idea that one's body is…

— Murray Bookchin

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“No one can tell you for certain if we have free will or we don't. [...] Whatever you choose to believe, you will probably…

— J.W. Ironmonger

Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things.…

— Julian Jaynes

Prior to and during [John] Locke's time, it was difficult to determine where religion or church left off and government or state began. The…

— Jayne Meadows

“John Locke says that whatever other tasks a government undertakes—whether humanitarian or otherwise—its primary duty is to protect its own citizens from foreign and…

— Dinesh D'Souza

[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed, were applicable…

— Gordon S. Wood

The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes,…

— Simon Mainwaring

“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Liberalism is a creation of the seventeenth century, fathered by British philosopher John Locke (1632–1704). For Locke, liberalism means limited government, the rule of…

— Peter Boghossian