"But there is only one thing which gathers……" — John Locke
"But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression"
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74 Quotes by John Locke
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The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to…
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Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and…
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for…
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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around…
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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause…
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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More Commotion Quotes
This quote is filed under Commotion Quotes,
one of 46 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my…
— John Updike
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Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where…
— Tryon Edwards
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You just have to take a little salt, and since I'm doing that it's, like, BOOM! In one week, I…
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
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I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh…
— Stan Musial
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Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly…
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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The Natural Step is a clear voice in the commotion.
— Leif Johansson
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Game in, game out, year in, year out, just a kid cruising the ice looking to cause trouble - a…
— Ken Dryden
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Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
— Marilu Henner
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It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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