John Locke Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

  John Locke

  Children, Pain, Suffering

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.106, Cosimo, Inc.

• Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

  John Locke

  Children, Pain, Mind

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.150

• Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

  John Locke

  Fashion, Expression, Suffering

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.10

• Now, I appeal to the consciences of those that persecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion, whether they do it out of friendship and kindness towards them or no? I say, if all this be done merely to make men Christians and procure their salvation, why then do they suffer whoredom, fraud, malice and such-like enormities, which (according to the Apostle) manifestly relish of heathenish corruption, to predominate so much and abound amongst their flocks and people?

  John Locke

  Christian, Kindness, Men

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