John locke social contract quotes

John Locke (29 August1632 – 28 October1704) was an influential English philosopher and social contract theorist. He developed an alternative to the Hobbesianstate of nature and asserted a government could be good only if it received the consent of the governed and protected the natural rights of life, liberty, and estate.

If such a consent was not achieved, Locke argued in favour of a right of rebellion, which he referred to as an "appeal to heaven".

Quotes

• The three great things that govern mankind are reason, passion and superstition.

  The first governs a few, the two last share the bulk of mankind and possess them in their turns.

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  But superstition most powerfully produces the greatest mischief.

  • Journal entry (16 May 1681), quoted in Maurice Cranston, John Locke: A Biography (1957; 1985), p. 200

• Wit and good nature meeting in a fair young lady as they do in you make the best resemblance of an angel that we know; and he that is blessed wit