John Locke Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

  John Locke

  Liberty, Violence, Restraint

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.234

• A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.

  John Locke

  War, Men, Criminals

  John Locke (2009). “The Second Treatise on Civil Government”, p.13, Prometheus Books

• 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

• Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.

  John Locke

  Philosophy, Law, Political

  John Locke (2012). “A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction”, p.45, Springer Science & Business Media

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