John Locke Quotes About Tyranny

Quotes about: Tyranny

• Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

  John Locke

  Law, Ends, Tyranny

  Second Treatise of Civil Government ch. 18, sec. 202 (1690)

• Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.

  John Locke

  Mistake, Thinking, Hands

  John Locke, Peter Laslett (1988). “Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student Edition”, p.400, Cambridge University Press

• If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.

  John Locke

  Men, Hands, Desire

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.385

• The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

  John Locke

  People, Body, May

• As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

  John Locke

  Exercise, Government, Tyranny

  John Locke (2015). “The Second Treatise of Civil Government”, p.141, Broadview Press

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