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

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

— David Hume

A man does what he must, with no personal consequences in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressure And that is the basis of…

— Blaze Olamiday

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

— Cardinal Richelieu

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

— John Henry Newman

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

— Edmund Burke

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not…

— David Hume

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

— Martha Graham

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

— William Hazlitt

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

— Herodotus

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte