Demand Quote by John Locke

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his…

— John Locke

A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.

— Catherine Wilson

“That is the trouble...You are a crowd of bits of boys all in the thing for what you will get. Demands, you call them.…

— Richard Llewellyn

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

— Flannery O'Connor

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or…

— C. S. Lewis

“If the right to happiness is not an idle piece of wishful thinking but a demand of reason, the consequences can be revolutionary.”

— Susan Neiman

At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite…

— Emile Durkheim

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

— Ayn Rand

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man…

— Ayn Rand

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral…

— Ravi Zacharias