Top 54 Under Locke Quotes
#1. Self-esteem is an essential psychological need - no one can live with the conviction that they are fundamentally no good, so people who lack the real thing attempt to fake it.
Edwin A. Locke
#2. Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
John Locke
#3. That's it? 'Damn, it smells like the fishsticks are burning and don't do that with your head, Bode?' What the fuck?
Joe Hill
#4. If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.
Gary Locke
#5. I turn, touch the side of her face and look into her eyes. I hope she can see what I feel in them. I hope she can see that I've loved her since the day I fucking saw her. I hope she can see that I will love her 'til the day I die.
Adriana Locke
#6. Time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think.
Scott Lynch
#7. Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they're lying - it seems they never die at all.
Scott Lynch
#8. We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.
John Locke
#9. I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'
Taran Killam
#10. But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
John Locke
#11. Life does pack a punch. But it's the scars that make us who we are, that tell the story of the life we lived.
Adriana Locke
#12. Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.
John Locke
#13. James scoffed. "We are not being held prisoner. You're so dramatic."
"Oh yeah, she just kidnapped us and told us the only way we're going to be let go is if we go to other alien planets and steal from them. You're right, James, I'm clearly overly overreacting," Kat snapped.
L. Taylor
#14. Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
John Locke
#15. For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.
John Locke
#16. Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#17. There it was. That fierce loyalty. He didn't have a clue how that was the most attractive thing about him. It trumped his face, his ink, his body, everything. Dex Locke was true. He was grounded.
Mariana Zapata
#18. Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
John Locke
#19. All apologies for getting most of your fortune buried under shit. I hope we can all still be friends.
Scott Lynch
#20. Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.
John Locke
#21. Right then, in that moment, Dex The Dick grinned. Grinned. And sweet mother of God, it was devastating. So completely catastrophic I just stood there and absorbed the nuclear bomb going off in front of me, defenseless.
Mariana Zapata
#22. Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
John Locke
#23. Dex The Dick. Dex The Kind Grump was shoving his tongue down my throat. My boss. Dex. Charlie. The guy who signed my paychecks.
Mariana Zapata
#24. It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish which lies in the way to knowledge.
John Locke
#25. All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.
Alain LeRoy Locke
#26. All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke
#27. He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
John Locke
#28. Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
John Locke
#29. The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.
Samuel Johnson
#30. We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
Gary Locke
#31. Until you finally lose the strength for sarcasm, Locke, I wouldn't hire any mourners.
Scott Lynch
#32. Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
John Locke
#33. Such audacity could never be faked - Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth.
Scott Lynch
#34. Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.
William John Locke
#35. John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
Bertrand Russell
#36. He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
John Locke
#37. In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
John Locke
#38. Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
John Locke
#39. The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!
John Locke
#40. Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.
Bobby Locke
#41. Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
John Locke
#42. You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story I want. The future can be anything I want it to be." He moved his head side to side, considering my words. "That works, as long as your story has a blond stud that fucks like an animal.
Adriana Locke
#43. I thought you specialised in dishonest finesse?"
"I also do a brisk trade in putting knives to peoples' throats and shouting at them," said Locke.
Scott Lynch
#44. How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
John Locke
#46. Every man's first declaration of love is bathos
the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.
William John Locke
#47. Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances. - John Locke
Robert Jackson Bennett
#48. John Locke first began maintaining a commonplace book in 1652, during
Steven Johnson
#49. The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.
John Locke
#50. If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
Gary Locke
#51. Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.
Russell Kirk
#52. I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
John Locke
#53. [Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
John Locke
#54. Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.
John Locke
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