John Locke Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Evil, Perspective

• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Punishment, Evil

  Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 54 (1693)

• Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.

  John Locke

  Karma, Men, Evil

  John Locke (1813). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.250

• How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.

  John Locke

  Pain, Thinking, Evil

  John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.52

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