HNR102 Midterm

"If ever I lie down in sloth and base inaction, Then let that moment be my end! If by your false cajolery you lull me into self-sufficiency, if any pleasure you can give deludes me, let me cease to live! I offer you this wager!"

(Faust) Faust - Goethe

"God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational, (and labour was to be his title of it;) not to the fancy or covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"I have here rated the improved land very low, in making its product but as ten to one, when it is much nearer an hundred one: for I ask, whether in the wild woods and uncultivated waste of America, left to nature, without any improvement, tillage or husbandry, a thousand acres yield the needy and wretched inhabitants as many conveniences of life, as ten acres of equally fertile land do in Devonshire, where they are well cultivated?"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"If man in the state of nature be so free, as has been said; if he be absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, and subject to no body, why will he part with his freedom? why will he give up this empire, and subject himself to the dominion and controul of any other power?"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"Secondly, these laws also ought to be designed for no other end ultimately, but the good of the people"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"And that all men may be restrained from invading others rights, and from doing hurt to one another, and the law of nature be observed, which willeth the peace and preservation of all mankind, the execution of the law of nature is, in that state, put into every man's hands, whereby every one has a right to punish the transgressors of that law to such a degree, as may hinder its violation: for the law of nature would, as all other laws that concern men in this world, be in vain, if there were no body that in the state of nature had a power to execute that law, and thereby preserve the innocent and restrain offenders."

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"But I shall endeavour to shew, how men might come to have a property in several parts of that which God gave to mankind in common, and that without any express compact of all the commoners"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel what they lie under, and see whither they are going; it is not to be wondered, that they should then rouze themselves, and endeavor to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the ends for which government was at first erected"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"But the chief matter of property being now not the fruits of the eart, and the beasts that subsist on it, but the earth iself: as that which takes in and carries with it all the rest: I think it is plain , that property in that too is acquired as the former. As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of, so much is his property"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence; though man in that state have an uncontroulable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself, or so much as any creature in his possession, but where some nobler use than its bare preservation calls for it."

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"First, they are to govern by promulgated established laws, not to be varied in particular cases, but to have one rule for rich and poor, for the favorite at court, and the country man at plough"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"For all power given with trust for the attaining an end, being limited by that end, whenever that end is manifestly neglected, or opposed, the trust must necessarily be forfeited, and the power devolve into the hands of those that gave it, who may place it anew where they shall think best for their safety and security"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"Fourthly, the legislative neither must nor can transfer the power of making laws to any body else, or place it any where, but where the people have"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"He that had as good left for his improvement, as was already taken up, needed not complain, out not to meddle with what was already improved by another's labour: if he did, it is plain he desired the benefit of another's pains, which he had no right to, and not the ground which God had given in common with others to labour on, and whereof there was as good left, as that already possessed, and more than he knew what to do with, or his industry could reach to"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"It being by him removed from the common state nature hath placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it, that excludes the common right of other men: for this labour being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good, left in common for others"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"May the commands then of a prince be opposed? May he be resisted as often as any one shall find himself aggrieved, and but imagine he has not right done him? This will unhinge and overturn all polities, and, instead of government and order, leave nothing but anarchy and confusion"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"To which let me add, that he who appropriates land to himself by his labour, does not lessen, but increase the common stock of mankind: for the provisions serving to the support of human life, produced by one acre of inclosed and cultivated land, are (to speak much within compass) ten times more than those which are yielded by an acre of land of an equal richness lying waste in common. "

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"You were really sorry for me, were you? Well, there was cause. I've fought through a bitter life since I last heard your voice, and you must forgive me, for I struggled only for you."

(Catherine to Linton)Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"He's not a rough diamond - a pearl containing oyster of a rustic; he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man)

(Catherine to Isabella about Heathcliff) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"A strange Effect of narrow Principles and short Views! that a Prince possessed of every Quality which procures Veneration, Love, and Esteem; of strong Parts, great Wisdom and profound Learning; endued with admirable Talents for Government, and almost adored by his Subjects; should from a nice unnecessary Scruple, whereof in Europe we can have no Conception, let slip an Opportunity to put into his Hands, that would have made him absolute Master of the Lives, the Liberties, and the Fortunes of his People"

(Brobdingnag) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"I cannot but conclude the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth."

(Brobdingnag) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"This Prince took a Pleasure in conversing with me...he observed, how contemptible a Thing was human Grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive Insects as I"

(Brobdingnag) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"Ay, he does well enough if he be disposed, and so do I too. He does it with a better grade, but I do it more natural"

(Andrew) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare - "natural" as in someone who is born stupid

"How have you made division of yourself? An apple cleft in two is not more twin than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?"

(Antonio) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"The gentleness of all the gods go with thee. I have many enemies in Orsino's court, else would I very shortly see thee there. But come what may, I do adore thee so that danger shall seem sport, and I will go"

(Antonio) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"It's public opinion, the informed citizens, the home owners, and all the rest -- they're the ones that run the press"

(Aslaksen) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"Anything that's mended is but patched; virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue. If that this simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not, what remedy? As there is no true cuckold but calamity, so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take away the fool; therefore, I say again, take her away"

(Clown talking to Olivia) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"When that I was and a little tiny boy, with hey, ho, the wind and the rain, a foolish thing was but a toy, for the rain it raineth every day. But when I came to man's estate, with hey, ho, the wind and the rain, 'gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate, for the rain it raineth every day. But when I came, alas, to wive, with hey, ho, the wind and the rain, by swaggering could I never thrive, for the rain it raineth every day. But when I came unto my beds, with hey, ho, the wind and the rain, with tosspots still had drunken heads, for the rain it raineth every day. A great while ago the world begun, hey, ho, the wind and the rain; but that's all one, our play is done, and we'll strive to please you every day"

(Clown's final song) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"Now the melancholy god protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere; for that's it that always makes a good voyage of nothing. Farewell"

(Clown) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"And then they want to take my practice away, too. Well, let them! I'll keep the poor people at least -- the ones who can't pay at all; and, Lord knows, they're the ones that need me the most. But, by thunder, they'll have to hear me out. I'll preach to them in season and out of season, as someone once said."

(Dr. Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"I'll smash them into the ground and shatter them! I'll wreck their defenses in the eyes of every fair-minded man! That's what I'll do!

(Dr. Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"The majority is never right. I say, never! That's one of those social lies that any free man who thinks for himself has to rebel against. Who makes up the majority in any country -- the intelligent, or the stupid? I think we've got to agree that, all over this whole wide earth, the stupid are in a fearsomely overpowering majority. But I'll be damned to perdition if it's part of the eternal plan the stupid are meant to rule the intelligent!"

(Dr. Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"Who the hell cares about danger! Whatever I do will be done in the name of truth, for the sake of my conscience."

(Dr. Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"Yes, you can bet I'll name them! Because that's exactly my great discovery yesterday. (Raising his voice) The most insidious enemy of truth and freedom among us is the solid majority. Yes, the damned, solid, liberal majority -- that's it! Now you know."

(Dr. Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"no back ways out, Katherine. You'll be hearing from the enemy of the people before he shakes this dust off his feet! I'm not as meek as one certain person; I'm not saying, "I forgie them, because they know not what they do"

(Dr. Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"oh yes, you can shout me down well enough, but you can't refute me. The majority has the might -- unhappily -- but it lacks the right. The right is with me, and the other few, the solitary individuals. The minority is always right"

(Dr. Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

I've said I'd talk about the great discovery I've made these last few days: the discovery that all the sources of our spiritual life are polluted, and that our entire community rests on a muckheap of lies"

(Dr. Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

Yes, why not! (Gathers them around him and speaks confidentially) And the essence of it, you see, is that the strongst man in the world is the one who stands most alone"

(Dr. Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"Come away, come away, death, and in sad cypress let me be laid. Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it. My part of death, no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, on a black coffin let there be strown; not a friend, not a friend greet my poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me, O, where sad true lover never find my grace, to weep there."

(Duke's song) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"And that I partly know the instrument that screws me from my true place in your favor, live you the marble-breasted tyrant still. But this your minion, whom I know you love, and whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly, Him will I tear out of that cruel eye where he sits crowned in his master's spite. Come, body, with me. My thoughts are ripe in mischief. I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love. To spite a raven's heart within a dove"

(Duke) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty. Tell her my love, more noble than the world, prizes not quantity of dirty lands; the parts that fortune hath bestowed upon her tell her I hold as giddily as fortune, but 'tis that miracle and queen of gems that nature pranks her in attracts my soul"

(Duke) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! It had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odor. Enough, no more! 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. "

(Duke) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"That say thou art a man. Diana's lip is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound, and all is semblative a woman's part. I know thy constellation is right apt for this affair. Some four or five attend him, all, if you will; for I myself am best when least in company. Prosper well in this, and thou shalt live as freely as they lord to call his fortunes thine"

(Duke) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"There is no woman's sides can bide the beating of so strong a passion as love doth give my heart; no woman's heart so big to hold so much; they lack retention."

(Duke) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"Why should I not, had I the heart to do it, like to th' Egyptian thief at point of death, kill what I love? - a savage jealousy that sometime savors nobly. But hear me this: since you to non-regardance cast my faith"

(Duke) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"One face, one voice, on habit, and two persons -- a natural perspective that is and is not."

(Duke) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare - Viola superimposed on Sebastian

"Good madam, hear me speak, and let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come, taint the condition of this present hour, which I have wond'red at. In hope it shall not, most freely I confess myself and Toby set this device against Malvolio here, upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts we had conceived against him. Maria write the letter, at Sir Toby's great importance, in recompense whereof he hath married her. How with a sportful malice it was followed may rather plug on laughter than revenge, if that the injuries be justly weighed that have on both sides passed"

(Fabian) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"Call it joy, or your heart, or love, or God! I have no name for it. The feeling's all there is:"

(Faust) Faust - Goethe

"He got on to the bed and wrenched open the lattice, bursting, as he pulled at it, into an uncontrollable passion of tears. 'Come in! come in!' he sobbed. 'Cathy, do come. Oh, do - once more! Oh! my heart's darling, hear me this time-- Catherine, at last!'

(Healthcliff) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"But there's this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Min has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost - rendered worse than unavailing"

(Heathcliff about Hareton & Hindley) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"May she wake in torment! ... Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest, as long as I am living! ... I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"

(Heathcliff to Catherine) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"You loved me - -then what right had you to leave me?"

(Heathcliff to Catherine) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

'Yet, I'll answer it. Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it - hardly three feet to sever me! And now you'd better go. You'll neither see nor hear anything to frighten you, if you refrain from prying"

(Heathcliff) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"But an editor's first and foremost responsibility -- what is that, gentlemen? Isn't it to work in collaboration with his readers? Hasn't he received something on the order of an unspoken mandate to strive actively and unceasingly on behalf of those who share his beliefs? Or maybe I'm wrong in this?

(Hovstad) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"The majority is always right"

(Hovstad) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"Yes -- and so I think a journalist is terribly remiss if he neglects the least opportunity for the liberation of the powerless, oppressed masses. Oh, I know -- those on top are going to label this agitation, among other things; but they can say what they please. So long as my conscience is clear, then--

(Hovstad) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"I love him more than ever you loved Edgar: and he might love me if you would let him!"

(Isabella to Catherine) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"Which two might Powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate War for six and thirty Moons past. It began upon the following Occasion. It is allowed on all Hands, that the primitive Way of breaking Eggs before we eat them, was upon the larger End: But his present majesty's Grand-father, which he was a Boy, going to eat an Egg, and breaking it according to the ancient Practice, happened to cut one of his Fingers. Whereupon the Emperor, his Father, published an Edit, commanding all his Subjects, upon great Penalties, to break the smaller End of their Eggs. The People so resented this Law, that our Histories tell us, there have been six Rebellions raised on that Account; wherein one Emperor lost his Life, and another his Crown."

(Lilliput & Blefuscu) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"I remember when I was once interceeding with the King for a Criminal who had wrongs his Master of a great Sum of Money, which he had received by Order, and ran away with; and happening to tell his Majesty, by way of Extenuation, that it was only a Breach of Trust; The Emperor thought it monstrous in me to offer, as a Defence, the greatest Aggravation of the Crime: and truly, I had little to say in Return, farther than the common Answer, that different Nations had different Customs; for, I confess, I was heartily ashamed"

(Lilliput) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"I was diverted with none so much as that of the Rope-Dancers, performed upon a slender white Thread, extended about two Foot, and twelve Inches from the Ground. Upon which, I shall desire Liberty, with the Reader's Patience, to enlarge a little."

(Lilliput) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"In chusing Persons for all Employments, they have more Regard to good Morals than to great Abilities .... they thought the Want of Moral Virtues was so far from being supplied by superior Endowments, that Employments could never be put into such dangerous Hands as those of Persons so qualified"

(Lilliput) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"In relating these and the following Laws, I would only be understood to mean the original Institutions, and not the most scandalous Corruptions into which these People are fallen by the degenerate Nature of Man"

(Lilliput) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"In the Female Nurseries, the young Girls of Quality are educated much like the Males... thus the young Ladies there are as much ashamed of being Cowards and Fools, as the Men"

(Lilliput) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"That all true Believers shall break their Eggs at the convenient End: and which is the convenient End, seems, in my humble Opinion, to be left to every Man's Conscience, or at least in the Power of the chief Magistrate to determine"

(Lilliput) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"The Emperor lays on a Table three fine silken Threads of six Inches long. One is Blue, the other Red, and the third Green. These Threads are proposed as Prizes, for those Persons whom the Emperor hath a mind to distinguish by a peculiar Mark of his Favour"

(Lilliput) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"They look upon Fraud as a greater Crime than Theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with Death: For they alledge, that Care and Vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a Man's Goods from Thieves; but Honesty hath no Fence against superior Cunning:"

(Lilliput) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"This Diversion is only practised by those Persons, who are Candidates for great Employments, and high Favour, at Court. They are trained in this Art from their Youth, and are not always of noble Birth, or liberal Education. When a great Office is vacant, either by Death or Disgrace, (which often happens) five or six of those Candidates petition the Emperor to entertain his Majesty and the Court with a Dance on the Rope; and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds in the Office. Very often the cheif Ministers themselves are commanded to shew their Skill, and to convince the Emperor that they have not lost their Faculty. Flimnap, the Treasurer, is allowed to cut a Caper on the strait Rope, at least an Inch higher than any other Lord in the whole Empire"

(Lilliput) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"Whoever performs his Part with most Agility, and holds out the longest in leaping and creeping, is rewarded with the Blue-coloured Silk; the Red is given to the next, and the Green to the third, which they all wear girt round about the Middle; and you see few great Persons about this Court, who are not adorned with one of these Girdles."

(Lilliput) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"He is a dark-skinned gypsy in aspect, in dress and manners of a gentleman, that is, as much a gentleman as many a country squire: rather slovenly, perhaps, yet not looking amiss with his negligence, because he has an erect and handsome figure - and rather morose. .... He'll love and hate, equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again"

(Lockwood about Heathcliff) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"While enjoying a month of fine weather at the sea-coast, I was thrown into the company of a most fascinating creature, a real goddess in my eyes, as long as she took no notice of me. I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me at last, and looked a return - the sweetest of all imaginable looks. And what did I do? I confess it with shame - shrunk icily into myself, like a snail; at every glance retired colder and farther; till, finally, the poor innocent was led to doubt her own sense, and overwhelmed with confusion at her supposed mistake, persuaded her mama to decamp"

(Lockwood about failed love) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte`

"The intense horror of nightmare came over me; I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed-- 'Let me in- let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LInton? I had read Earnshaw twenty times for Linton). 'I'm come home, I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window. Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bed clothes"

(Lockwood) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"But this is shameful. Why do they all turn against you, these men?

(Mrs. Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"Having been three months married her, sitting in my state - ... calling my officers about me, in my branched velvet gown; having come from a daybed, where I have left Olivia sleeping -- and then to have the humor of state; and after a demure travel of regard, telling them I know my place, as I would they should do theirs, to ask for my kinsman Toby -- ... Seven of my people, with an obedient start, make out for him. I frown the while, and perchance wind up my watch, or play with my -- some rich jewel. Toby approaches; curtsies there to me---"

(Malvolio) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal. I saw him put down the other day with an ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard already. Unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged. I protest I take these wise men that crow so at these set kind of fools no better than the fools' zanies"

(Malvolio) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"I wouldn't live with a man like that! As soon as he steps through the door, you can tell you're being looked so mockingly at and half fiercely as well; and he cares for nothing, not man nor God. It's as if he'd a mark on his brow that said that he never has loved, that his heart is dead. Each time you put your arms round me I'm yours so completely, so warm, so free! But I close up inside at the sight of him"

(Margareta) Faust - Goethe

"That man you have with you -- I hate him, upon my soul I do! It pierces me to the heart like a knife. I've seen nothing so dreadful in all my life as that man's face and its ugly sneer"

(Margareta) Faust - Goethe

"The devil a Puritan that he is, or anything constantly but a time pleaser; an affectioned ass, that cons state without book and utters it by great swarths; the best persuaded of himself; so crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him; and on that vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work"

(Maria) Twelfth Night - Shakespare

"All that's coming out, to my mind, is your usual hunger for a good fight. You want to attack your superiors -- it's your old pattern. You can't stand any authority over you; you resent anyone in a higher position and regard him as a personal enemy -- and then one weapon's as good as another to use. But now I've acquainted you with the vital interests at stake here for this whole town -- and, naturally, for me as well. And so I'm warning you, Thomas, I'll be adamant about the demand I'm going to make you"

(Mayor Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"And even if it were true? Even if I seem a bit overanxious about my reputation it's all for the good of the town. Without moral authority I could hardly guide and direct affairs in the way I believe serves the general welfare. For this reason -- among many others -- it strikes me as imperative that your report not be submitted to the board of directors. It has to be withheld for the common good. Then later I'll bring the matter up for discussion, and we'll do the very best we can, as quietly as possible. But nothing -- not the slightest word of this catastrophe must leak out to the public"

(Mayor Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"As a staff member, I said. As a private person-- why, that's another matter. But as a subordinate official at the baths, you're not entitled to express any opinions that contradict your superiors"

(Mayor Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"Yes, Thomas, you're a very troublesome man to work with. I know from experience. You show no consideration at all. You seem to forget completely that I'm the one you can thank for your post here as staff physician at the baths --"

(Mayor Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"Yes, unfortunately you do, without your knowing it. You have a restless, unruly, combative nature. And then this unhappy knack of bursting into print on all kinds of likely and unlikely subjects. You're no sooner struck by an idea than right away you have to scribble a newspaper article on it, or a whole pamphlet even"

(Mayor Stockmann) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"Still, I thought I could detect in his physiognomy a mind owning better qualities than his father ever possessed. Good things lost amid a wilderness of weeds .. He appeared to have bent his malevolence on making him a brute: he was never taught to read or write; never rebuked for any bad habit which did not annoy his keeper; never led a single step towards virtue, or guarded by a single precept against vice.. Joseph contributed much to his deterioration by a narrow-minded partiality which prompted him to flatter and pet him, as a boy, because he was the head of the old family"

(Nelly about Heathcliff and Hareton) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

'Why do you love him, Miss Cathy?' 'Nonsense, I do - that's sufficient.' 'By no means; you must say why.' 'Well, because he is handsome, and pleasant to be with.' 'Bad,' was my commentary. 'And because he is young and cheerful.' 'Bad, still.' 'And because he loves me.' 'Indifferent, coming there.' 'And he will be rich, and I shall like to be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood, and I shall be proud of having such a husband'

(Nelly to Catherine about Edgar) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"'The curtains were still looped up at one corner; and I resumed my station as spy, because, if Catherine had wished to return, I intended shattering their great glass panes to a million fragments, unless they let her out.'

(Nelly) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted. I will give out divers schedules of my beauty. It shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil labeled to my will: as, item, two lips, indifferent red; item, two gray eyes, with lids to them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were you sent hither to praise me?"

(Olivia) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"O, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste with a distempered appetite. To be generous, guiltless, and of free disposition., is to take those things for birdbolts that you deem cannon bullets. There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet man, though he do nothing but reprove"

(Olivia) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"The clock upbraids me with the waste of time"

(Olivia) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"A man comes to be born; hist first years are passed obscurely among the pleasures or travails of infancy. He grows up; manhood begins; the doors of the world finally open to receive him; he enters into contact with those like him. Then one studies him for the first time, and one believes one sees the seed of the vices and virtues of his mature age forming in him. That, it I am not mistaken, is a great error. "

(Point of Departure) Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

Speaker 1: "I'll help you, Sir Toby, because we'll be dressed together" Speaker 2: "Will you help -- an ass-head and a coxcomb and a knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull?"

(Speaker 1: Andrew/ Speaker 2: Toby) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare - Toby hurting Andrew

Speaker 1: "Come hither, boy. If ever thou shalt love, in the sweet pangs of it remember me; for such as I am all true lovers are, unstaid and skittish in all motions else save in the constant image of the creature that is beloved. How dost thou like this tune?" Speaker 2: "It gives a very echo to the seat where Love is throned"

(Speaker 1: Duke/ Speaker 2: Viola) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

Speaker 1: "A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of it. Where lies your text?" Speaker 2: "In Orsino's bosom." Speaker 1: "In his bosom? In what chapter of his bosom?" Speaker 2: "To answer by the method, in the first of his heart"

(Speaker 1: Olivia / Speaker 2: Viola) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

Speaker 1: "She's a beagle true-bred, and one that adores me. What o' that?" Speaker 2: "I was adored once too"

(Speaker 1: Toby/ Speaker 2: Andrew) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

Speaker 1: "Out o' tune, sire? Ye lie. Art any more than a steward? Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" Speaker 2: "Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' th' mouth too"

(Speaker 1: Toby/ Speaker 2: Clown) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

Speaker 1: "I could marry this wench for this device" Speaker 2: "So could I too." Speaker 1: "And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest." Speaker 2: "Nor I neither." Speaker 3: "Here comes my noble gull-catcher." Speaker 1: "Wilt thou set thy foot o' my neck?" Speaker 2: "Or o' mine either?" Speaker 1: "Shall I play my freedom at tray-trip and become thy bondslave?" Speaker 2: "I' faith, or I either?"

(Speaker 1: Toby/Speaker 2: Andrew/ Speaker 3: Fabian) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"I'm a taxpayer! And, therefore, so I got rights to an opinion! And I have the sotted -- solid and incomprehensible opinion that -- "

(The Drunk) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"He serves me, but still serves me in confusion"

(The Lord) Faust - Goethe

"Chains and executioners are the coarse instruments that tyranny formerly employed; but in our day civilization has perfected even despotism itself, which seemed, indeed, to have nothing more to learn"

(Tyranny of the Majority) Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"In democratic republics, tyranny does not proceed in this way; it leaves the body and goes straight for the soul. The master no longer says to it: You shall think as I do or you shall die; he says: You are free not to think as I do; your life, your goods, everything remains to you; but from this day on, you are a stranger among us"

(Tyranny of the Majority) Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"One sees governments that strive to protect mores by condemning the authors of licentious books. In the US, no one is condemned for these sorts of works; but no one is tempted to write them. It is not, however, that all the citizens have pure mores, but the majority is regular in its. Here the use of power is doubtless good: so I speak only of the power in itself. This irresistible power is a continuous fact, and its good use is only an accident"

(Tyranny of the Majority) Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"Religion, which, among Americans, never mixes directly in the government of society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions for if it does not give them the taste for freedom, it singularly facilitates their use of it"

(Tyranny of the Majority) Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"So, therefore, at the same time that the law permits the American people to do everything, religion prevents them from conceiving everything and forbids them to dare everything"

(Tyranny of the Majority) Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"The Inquisition could never prevent books contrary to the religion of the greatest number from circulating in Spain. The empire of the majority does better in the US: it has taken away event the thought of publishing them. One encounters nonbelievers in America, but disbeliefs finds so to speak no organ"

(Tyranny of the Majority) Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"The government called mixed has always seemed to me to be a chimera. There is, to tell the truth, no mixed government ( in the sense that one gives to this word)., because in each society one discovers in the end one principle of action that dominates all the others"

(Tyranny of the Majority) Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"What I most reproach in democratic government, as it has been organized in the US, is not, as many people in Europe claim, its weakness, but on the contrary, its irresistible force. And what is most repugnant to me in America is not the extreme freedom that reigns there, it is the lack of a guarantee against tyranny"

(Tyranny of the Majority) Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"one must always place somewhere one social power superior to all the others, but I believe freedom to be in peril when that power finds no obstacle before it that can restrain its advance and give it time to moderate itself"

(Tyranny of the Majority) Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"the jury is the majority vested with the right to pronounce decrees: in certain states, the judges themselves are elected by the majority. Therefore, however iniquitous or unreasonable is the measure that strikes you, you must submit to it"

(Tyranny of the Majority) Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

When I see the right and the ability to do everything granted to any power whatsoever, whether it is called people or king, democracy or aristocracy, whether it is exercised in a monarchy or in a republic, I say: there is the seed of tyranny, and I seek to go live under other laws"

(Tyranny of the Majority) Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"So please my lord, I might not be admitted; But from her handmaid do return this answer: The element itself, till seven years' heat, shall not behold her face at ample view; But like a cloistress she will veiled walk, and water once a day her chamber round with eye-offending brine: al this to season a brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh and lasting in her sad remembrance."

(Valentine talking about Olivia) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"A blank, my lord. She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pined in though; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for still we prove much in our vows but little in our love"

(Viola) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"After him I love more than I love these eyes, more than my life, more, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife. If I do feign, you witnesses above punish my life for tainting of my love!"

(Viola) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"He named Sebastian. I my brother know yet living in my glass. Even such and so in favor was my brother, and he went still in this fashion, color, ornament, for him I imitate. O, if it prove, tempests are kind, and salt waves fresh in love!"

(Viola) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"I left no ring with her. What means this lady? Fortune forbid my outside have no charmed her. She made good view of me; indeed, so much that sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue, for she did speak in starts distractedly. She loves me sure;; the cunning of her passion invites me in this churlish messenger. None of my lord's ring? Why, he sent her none. I am the man. If it be so, as 'tis, poor lady, she were better love a dream. Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness wherein the pregnant enemy does much. How easy is it for the proper false in women's waxen hearts to set their forms!"

(Viola) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, and to do that well craves a kind of wit. He must observe their mood on whom he jests, the quality of persons, and the time; and, like the haggard, check at every feather that comes before his eye. This is a practice as full of labor as a wise man's art; For folly that he wisely shows, is fit; but wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit."

(Viola) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"Too well what love women to men may owe. In faith, they are as true of heart as we. My father had a daughter loved a man as it might be perhaps, were I a woman, I should your lordship"

(Viola) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive if you will lead these graces to the grace, and leave the world no copy"

(Viola/Cesario) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"Make me a willow cabin at your gate and call upon my soul within the house; write loyal cantons of contemned love and sing them loud even in the dead of night; hallo your name to the reverberate hills and make the babbling gossip of the air cry out "Olivia!" O, you should not rest between the elements of air and earth but you should pity me"

(Viola/Cesario) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

"That humouring was rich nourishment to the child's pride and black tempers"

(about Mr. Earnshaw liking Heathcliff) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"They are bred up in the Principles of Honour, Justice, Courage, Modesty, Clemency, Religion, and Love of their Country"

(moral education of Lilliput) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

"Peter Stockmann enters, wearing an overcoat and the official hat of his mayor's office. He carries a walking stick"

An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

Billing: Even so, a person at least ought to vote. Horster: People who don't understand, too? Billing: Understand? What do you mean by that? Society's like a ship: all hands have to stand to the wheel

An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

Hovstad: If you'll pardon me, Doctor, I think it comes from another swamp altogether. Dr. Stockmann: What sort? Hovstad: The swamp where our whole community lies rotting.

An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

Mayo Stockmann: I was just passing by, so -- (With a glance toward the dining room) Ah, but it seems you have a company already. Mrs. Stockmann: (somewhat embarrassed) No,no -- he was quite unexpected. (Hurriedly.) Won't you step in and join him for a bite?

An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

Mayor Stockmann: No, really, that's kind of you; but I'll stick to my bread and butter and tea. It's healthier in the long run - and a bit more economical, too. Mrs. Stockmann: Now you mustn't think that Thomas and I live so lavishly, either

An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

Petra: You still don't understand me. It shows how a supernatural power, watching over the so-called good people of this world, arranges everything for the best in their lives -- and how all the so-called wicked get their punishment. Hovstad: But that's fair enough. It's exactly what the public want

An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

"this establishment, the baths, that's been called the "main artery" of the town, and its "nerve center" and - who the hell knows what else"

An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen (Dr. Stockmann)

Thank you. Dear friends, thank you! My heart is so full of happiness--! Ah, what blessing it is to feel that you've done some service for your own home town and your fellow citizens. Hurrah, Katherine!"

An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen (Dr. Stockmann)

Yes, all right, just give me time, and you'll learn everything. If I only had Peter here now! There you see how we human beings can go around, passing judgements as blind as moles"

An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen (Dr. Stockmann)

"The individual has to learn to subordinate himself to the whole"

An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen (Mayor Stockmann)

"A new political science is needed for a world altogether new"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"But what distinguished them above all from all the others was the very goal of their undertaking. It was not necessity that forced them to abandon their country; they left a social position they might regret and secure means of living; nor did they come to the New World in order to improve their situation or to increase their wealth; they tore themselves away from the sweetness of their native country to obey a purely intellectual need; in exposing themselves to the inevitable miseries of exile, they wanted to make an idea triumph"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"Despotism, which in its nature is fearful, sees the most certain guarantee of its own duration in the isolation of men, and it ordinarily puts all its care into isolating them"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"Everywhere the various incidents in the lives of peoples are seen to turn to the profit of democracy; all men have aided it by their efforts: those who had in view cooperating for its success and those who did not dream of serving it; those who fought for it and even those who declared themselves its enemies; all have been driven pell-mell on the same track, and all have worked in common, some despite themselves, others without knowing it, as blind instruments in the hands of God."

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"Go back; examine the infant even in the arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the still-obscure mirror of his intelligence; contemplate the first examples that strike his eye; listen to the first words that awaken the sleeping powers of his though; finally, attend the first struggles that he has to sustain; and only then will you understand where the prejudices, habits, and passions that are going to dominate his life come from. The man is so to speak a whole in the swaddling clothes of his cradle"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"Here I only want to establish the existence of the obligation. The obligation is strict, but the state government, in imposing it, does nothing but decree a principle; for its execution the township generally recovers all its rights of individuality. Thus it is true that the tax is voted by the legislature, but it is the township that apportions and collects it; the existence of a school is imposed, but the township builds it, pays for it, and directs it."

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought there an image of democracy itself, of its penchants, its character, its prejudices, its passions; I wanted to become acquainted with it if only to know at least what we ought to hope or fear from it"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"I found that all these men differed among themselves only on details; but all attributed the peaceful dominion that religion exercises in their country principally to the complete separation of church and state."

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"I think that democratic peoples have a natural taste for freedom; left to themselves they seek it, they love it, and they will see themselves parted from it only with sorrow. But for equality they have an ardent, insatiable, eternal, invincible passion; they want equality in freedom, and , if they cannot get it, they still want it in slavery. They will tolerate poverty, enslavement, barbarism, but they will not tolerate aristocracy."

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"In New England, the township was completely and definitively constituted from 1650 on. Interests, passions, duties, and rights came to be grouped around the township's individuality and strongly attached to it. In the heart of the township one sees a real, active, altogether democratic and republican political life reigning. The colonies still recognize the supremacy of the metropolis; monarchy is the law of the state, but a republic is already very much alive in the township"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"In addition, aristocratic institutions have the effect of binding each man tightly to several of his fellow citizens. Classes being very distinct and immobile within an aristocratic people, each of them comes for whoever makes up a part of it a sort of little native country, more visible and dearer than the big one"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"It could not come to light outwardly within the laws since the colonies were still constrained to obey the mother country; it was therefore reduced to hiding itself in provincial assemblies and above all in the township. There it spread in secret"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"It nevertheless happened that on several occasions great lords came to America as a consequence of political or religious quarrels. Laws were made to establish a hierarchy of ranks, but they soon perceived that the American soil absolutely repelled territorial aristocracy. They saw that to clear that rebellious land, nothing less than the constant and interested efforts of the property owner himself were necessary"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"It was thus gold seekers who were sent to Virginia, people without resources or without [good] conduct, whose restive and turbulent spirits troubled the infancy of the colony and rendered its progress uncertain. Afterwards, the industrialists and farmers arrived, a more moral and tranquil race, but one that was elevated in almost no points above the level of the lower classes of England. No noble thought, no immaterial scheme presided at the foundation of the new settlements. Hardly had the colony been created when they introduced slavery; that was the capital fact that was bound to exert an immense influence on the character, the laws, and the whole future of the South"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"Racial prejudice appears to me stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than in those where slavery still exists, and nowhere it is shown to be as intolerant as in states where servitude has always been unknown"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"Slavery, as we shall explain later, dishonors world; it introduces idleness into society, and with it, ignorance and haughtiness, poverty and luxury. It enervates the forces of the intellect and puts human activity to sleep. The influence of slavery, combined with the English character, explains the mores and social state of the South"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"The American Revolution broke out. The dogma of the sovereignty of the people came out from the township and took hold of the government; all classes committed themselves to its cause; they did combat and they triumphed in its name; it became the law of laws"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"The entire book that you are going to read was written under the pressure of a sort of religious terror in the author's soul, produced by the sight of this irresistible revolution that for so many centuries has marched over all obstacles, and that one sees still advancing today amid the ruins it has made. It is not necessary that God himself speak in order for us to discover sure signs of his will; it suffices to examine the usual course of nature and the continuous tendency of events; I know without the Creator's raising his voice that the stars follow the arcs in space that his finger has traced"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"The gradual development of equality of conditions is therefore a providential fact, and it has the principal characteristics of one: it is universal, it is enduring, each day it escapes human power; all events, like all men, serve its development"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"There is one country in the world where the great social revolution I am speaking of seems nearly to have attained its natural limits; there it has operated in a simple and easy manner, or rather one can say that this country sees the results of the democratic revolution operating among us without having had the revolution itself"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"They therefore did not receive their powers; on the contrary, it was they that seemed to relinquish a portion of their independence in favor of the state"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"To instruct democracy, if possible to reanimate its beliefs, to purify its mores, to regulate its movements, to substitute little by little the science of affairs for its inexperience, and knowledge of its true interests for its blind instincts; to adapt its government to time and place; to modify it according to circumstances and men: such is the first duty imposed on those who direct society in our day"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows. In the US each newspaper has little power individually; but the periodical press is still, after the people, the first of powers"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"When estate law permits, and even more so when it orders equal partition of the father's goods among all the children, its effects are of two sorts; it is important to distinguish them carefully, although they ten to the same goal. By virtue of estate law, the death of each property owner brings a revolution in property; not only do goods change masters, but they change, so to speak, nature; they are constantly fragmented into smaller portions"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"When one wants to speak of the political laws of the United States, it is always with the dogma of the sovereignty of the people that one must being. The principle of the sovereignty of the people, which is always more or less at the foundation of almost all human institutions, ordinarily dwells there almost buried. One obeys it without recognizing it, or if sometimes it happens to be brought out in broad daylight for a moment, one soon hastens to plunge it back into the darkness of the sanctuary."

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"When, after having attentively studied the history of America, one carefully examines its political and social state, one feels profoundly convinced of this truth: there is not one opinion, one habit, one law, I could say one event, that the point of departure does not explain without difficulty. "

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"the emigrants of New England brought with them admirable elements of order and morality; they went to the wilderness accompanied by their wives and children"

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

"Now my first observation here is that there is a great difference between a mind and a body in that a body, by its very nature, is always divisible. On the other hand, the mind is utterly indivisible"

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"Thus, I see plainly that the certainty and truth of every science depends exclusively upon the knowledge of the true God, to the extent that, prior to my becoming aware of him, I was incapable of achieving perfect knowledge about anything else"

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"These facts are of plain signification on the view that species are only strongly-marked and permanent varieties"

The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin

"these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us"

The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin -Darwin speaking evolution -scientific method -"laws around us" = on earth/observable -reality, not just God

"from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved"

The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin -Darwin speaking evolution is cool

"When any number of men have so consented to make one community or government, they are thereby presently incorporated, and make one body politic, wherein the majority have a right to act and conclude the rest"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"one is gold put to the use of paving stones, and the other is tin plished to ape a service of silver"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Heathcliff to Nelly - Hareton is superior & Heathcliff takes extra pleasure in degrading him

"[I] wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleeps in that quiet earth"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Mr. Lockwood narrating last line of book - Lockwood is looking at the graces of Heathcliff, Catherine Sr. & Edgar

"...an essay concerning the true original extent and end of civil government"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"he's not a rough diamond - a pearl containing oyster of a rustic; he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -Catherine Sr. to Isabella - Catherine Sr. recognizes that Heathcliff is crazy and she tries to warn Isabella who is very infatuated with Heathcliff

"If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -Heathcliff to Nelly -Basically Edgar sucks and Heathcliff is the man for Catherine Sr.

"I never would have banished him from her society, as long as she desired his"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -Heathcliff to Nelly -Edgar told Heathcliff and Catherine Sr. they couldn't be friends -Heathcliff says Edgar's love is selfish and Heathcliff is sacrificing

"you must e'en taken it as a gift almost as if it came from the devil"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -Mr. Earnshaw to Mrs. Earnshaw talking abt Heathcliff - dehumanizes him possibly foreshadowing of Heathcliff become the devil

"'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it, at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive' 'No, God won't have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that, I don't feel pain.'

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"Both of us were able to look in by standing on the basement, and clinging to the ledge, and we saw - ah! it was beautiful - a splendid place carpeted with crimson, and crimson covered chairs and tables, and a pure white ceiling bordered by gold, a shower of glass-drops hanging in silver chains from the centre, and shimmering with little soft tapers. Old Mr. and Mrs. Linton were not there. Edgar and his sister had it entirely to themselves; shouldn't they have been happy? We should have thought ourselves in heaven! And now, guess what your good children were doing?"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"But Heathcliff, if I dare you now, will you venture? If you do, I'll keep you. I'll not lie there by myself; they may bury me twelve feet deep, and throw the church down over me, but I won't rest till you are with me. I never will!"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"Five minutes ago, Hareton seemed a personification of my youth, not a human being. I felt to him in such a variety of ways, that it would have been impossible to have accosted him rationally"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"I ingered around them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"In the evening, the weather broke; the wind shifted from south to northeast, and brought rain first, and then sleet and snow"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I''m well aware, as winter changes the trees - my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff "

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"Now fully revealed by the fire and candle light, I was amazed more than ever, to behold the transformation of Heathcliff. He had grown a tall, athletic, well-formed man, beside whome my master seemed quite slender and youth-like. His upright carriage suggested the idea of his having been in the army....it looked intelligent, and retained no marks of former degradation"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"The master's bad ways and bad companions formed a pretty example for Catherine and Heathcliff. His treatment of the latter was enough to make a fiend of a saint. And, truly, it appeared as if the lad were possessed of something diabolical at that period. He delighted to witness Hindley degrading himself past redemption; and became daily more notable for savage sullenness and ferocity"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"The nearer I got to the house the more agitated I grew; and on catching sight of it, I trembled every limb. The apparition had outstripped me; it stood looking through the gate. That was my first idea on observing an elf-locked, brown-eyed boy setting his ruddy countenance against the bars. Further reflection suggested this must be Hareton, my Hareton, not altered greatly since I left him, ten months since"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"We laughed outright at the petted things, we did despise them! When would you catch me wishing to have what Catherine wanted? or find us by ourselves, seeking entertainment in yelling, and sobbing, and rolling on the ground, dividied by the whole room? I'd not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton's at Thrushcross Grange - not if I might have the privilege of flinging Joseph off the highest gable, and painting the house-front with Hindley's blood!"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine. If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him. Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse. It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has not?"

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

"But if I hold off from making a judgement when I do not perceive what is true with sufficient clarity and distinctness, it is clear that I am acting properly and am not committing an error"

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"But the nature of man could have been so constituted by God that this same motion in the brain might have indicated something else to the mind: for example, either the motion itself as it occurs in the brain, or in the foot, or in some place in between, or something else entirely different"

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses"

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"Externally, besides the extension, shapes, and motion of bodies, I also sensed light, colors, odors, tastes, and sounds, on the basis of whose variety I distinguished the sky, the earth, the seas, and the other bodies, one from the other"

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"Deep contentment in my breast, alas, wells up no more, in spirt of all my best endeavors. Oh, how soon the stream runs dry, and in what parching thirst again we lie!"

(Faust) Faust - Goethe

"As I look skywards, then from rocky cliffs and dewy thickets the ensilvered shapes of a lost world, hovering there before me, assuage the austere joy of my contemplation"

(Faust) Faust - Goethe

"In the beginning was the Word: why, now I'm stuck already@ I must change that; how? Is then 'the word' so great and high a thing? There is some other rendering, which with the spirit's guidance I must find. We read: 'In the beginning was the Mind.' Before you write this first phrase, think again; good sense eludes the overhasty pen. Does 'mind' set worlds on their creative course? It means: 'In the beginning was the Force'. So it should be -- but as I write this too, some instinct warns me that it will not do. The spirit speaks! I see how it must read, and boldly write: 'In the beginning was the Deed!'"

(Faust) Faust - Goethe

"Oh, heavenly image! What is this I see appearing to me in this magic glass? Love, carry me to where she dwells, alas, oh, lend the swiftest of your wings to me! If I so much as move from this one spot, if I dare to approach her, then she seems to face, I see her as in misty dreams! The loveliest image of a woman! Is this not impossible, can woman be so fair? I see in that sweet body lying there the quintessence of paradise! How can one believe such things exist beneath the sun?"

(Faust) Faust - Goethe

"We learn to seek a higher inspiration, a supernatural revelation - and where does this shine in its fullest glory, if not in that old Gospel story"

(Faust) Faust - Goethe

"I'm not exactly a grandee"

(Mephistopheles) Faust - Goethe

"In this world I will bind myself to cater for all your whims, to serve and wait on you; when we meet in the next world, some time later, wages in the same kind will then fall due"

(Mephistopheles) Faust - Goethe

"Those long chains of utterly simple and easy reasonings that geometers commonly use to arrive at their most difficult demonstrations had given me occasion to imagine that all the things that can fall within human knowledge follow from one another in the same way, and that, provided only that one abstain from accepting any of them as true that is not true, and that one always adheres to the order one must following deducing the ones from the others, there cannot be any that are so remote that they are not eventually reached nor so hidden that they are not discovered"

Discourse on Method - Rene Descartes

"For I knew by experience that these ideas came upon me utterly without my consent, to the extent that, wish as I may, I could not sense any object unless it was present to a sense organ. Nor could I fail to sense it when it was present. And since the ideas perceived by sense were much more vivid and explicit and even, in their own way, more distinct than any of those that I deliberately and knowingly formed through meditation or that I found impressed on my memory, it seemed impossible that they came from myself. Thus the remaining alternative was that they came from other things"

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"Granted, there are many other things that I seem to have been taught by nature; nevertheless it was not really nature that taught them to me but a certain habit of making reckless judgements. And thus it could easily happen that these judgements are false"

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"Here all the tings I previously believed to be true because I had perceived them by means of the senses and the causes I had for thinking this. Next I will assess the causes why I later called them into doubt."

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"I sensed that this body was found among many other bodies, by which my body can be affected in various beneficial or harmful ways. I gauged what was opportune by means of a certain sensation of pleasure, and what was inopportune by a sensation of pain"

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"Let us consider those things which are commonly believed to be the most distinctly grasped of all: namely the bodies we touch and see. Not bodies in general, mind you, for these general perceptions are apt to be somewhat more confused, but one body in particular."

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"There is no reason to marvel at the fact that God should bring about certain things the reasons for which I do not understand .... It is not without rashness that I think myself capable of inquiring into the ends of God"

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"I judge that it might be true that fortune is arbiter of half of our actions, but also that she leaves the other half, or close to it, for us to govern. And I liken her to one of these violent rivers which, when they become enraged, flood the plains, ruin the trees and the buildings, lift earth from this part, drop in another; each person flees before them, everyone yields to their impetus without being able to hinder them in any regard"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"I say, then that in altogether new principalities, where there is a new prince, one encounters more or less difficulty in maintaining them according to whether the one who acquires them is more or less virtuous. And because the result of becoming prince from private individual presupposes either virtue or fortune, it appears that one or the other of these two things relieves in part many difficulties; nonetheless, he who has relied less on fortune has maintained himself more."

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"It is however necessary, if one wants to discuss this aspect well, to examine whether these innovators stand by themselves or depend on others; that is whether to carry out their deed they must beg or indeed can use force. In the first case they always come to ill and never accomplish anything; but when they depend on their own and are able to use force, then it is that they are rarely in peril. From this it arises that all the armed prophets conquered and the unarmed ones were ruined."

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"And indeed it was a foolish thing, as well as dishonest, to hoard up more than he could make use of it. If he gave away a part of any body else, so that it perished no uselessly in his possession, these he also made use of. And if he also bartered away plums, that would have rotted in a week, for nuts that would last good for his eating a whole year, he did no injury; he wasted not the common stock; destroyed no part of the portion of goods that belonged to others, so long as nothing perished uselessly in his hands. Again, if he would give his nuts for a piece of metal, pleased with is colour; or exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparkling pebble or a diamond, and keep those by him all his life, he invaded not the right of others, he might heap up as much of these durable things as he pleased; the exceeding of the bounds of his just property not lying in the largeness of his possession, but the perishing of any thing uselessly in it"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"And therefore he that incloses land, and has a greater plenty of the conveniences of life from ten acres, than he could have from an hundred left to nature, may truly be said to give ninety acres to mankind: for his labour now supplies him with provisions out of ten acres, which were but the product of an hundred lying in common. "

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"These are the bounds which the trust, that is put in them by the society, and the law of God and nature, have set to the legislative power of every common-wealth, in all forms of government. "

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"being furnished with like faculties, sharing all in one community of nature, there cannot be supposed any such subordination among us, that may authorize us to destroy one another, as if we were made for one another's uses, as the inferior ranks of creatures are for our's. Every one, as he is bound to preserve himself, and not to quit his station willfully, so by the like reason, when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of mankind, and may not, unless it be to do justice on an offender, take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"for law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under that law: could they be happier without it, the law, as an useless thing, would of itself vanish; and that ill deserves the name of confinement which hedges us in only from deserves the name of confinement which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"it is reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destructionl for, by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a wolf or a lion; because such men are not under the ties of the commonlaw of reason, have no other rule, but that of force and violence, and so may be treated as beasts or prey, those dangerous and noxious creatures, that will be sure to destroy him whenever he falls into their power"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions: for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker; all the servants of one sovereign master, sent into the world by his order, and about his business; they are his property, whose workmanship they are, made to last during his, not one another's pleasure"

Two Treatment of Government - John Locke

"My friend, all theory is grey, and green the golden tree of life"

(Mephistopheles) Faust - Goethe

"Part of that Power which would do evil constantly, and constantly does good... I am the spirit of perpetual negation"

(Mephistopheles) Faust - Goethe

"I thirst for knowledge, I'm not quite sure if I shall stay! These walls and halls scare me away. Everything seems to hem one in; There's no green grass, no trees, and in these lecture rooms -- oh goodness me, I can't think straight or hear or see!"

(Student) Faust - Goethe

"A good man, in his dark, bewilderness stress, well knows the path from which he should not stray"

(The Lord) Faust - Goethe

"Man is too apt to sink into mere satisfaction"

(The Lord) Faust - Goethe

"And although one should not reason about Moses, as he was a mere executor of things that had been ordered for him by God, nonetheless he should be admired if only for that grace which made him deserving of speaking with God. But let us consider Cyrus and the others who have acquired or founded kingdoms: you will find them all admirable; and if their particular actions and orders are considered, they will appear no different from those of Moses, who had so great a teacher."

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Let us take, for example, this piece of wax. It has been taken quite recently from the honeycomb...in short, everything is present in it that appears needed to enable a body to be known as distinctly as possible. But notice that, as I am speaking, I am bringing it close to the fire. The remaining traces of the honey flavor are disappearing; the scent is vanishing ... Does the same wax still remain? I must confess that it does; no one denies it; no one thinks otherwise. So what was there in the wax that so distinctly grasped?"

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"My next observation is that the nature of the body is such that whenever any of its parts can be moved by another part some distance away, it cannot also be moved in the same manner by any of the parts that lie between them, even if this more distant part is doing nothing"

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"My second observation is that my mind is not immediately affected by all the parts of the body, but only by the brain, or perhaps even by just one small part of the brain, namely, by that part where the "common" sense is said to reside. Whenever this part of the brain is disposed in the same manner, it presents the same things to the mind, even if the other parts of the body are able meanwhile to be related in diverse ways"

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"Next, as I focus more closely on myself and inquire into the nature of my errors(The only things that are indicative of some imperfection in me), I note that these errors depend on the simultaneous concurrence of two causes: the faculty of knowing that is in me and the faculty of choosing that is, the free choice of the will, in other words, simultaneously on the intellect and will."

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"Unless perhaps I were to liken myself to the insane, whose brains are impaired by such an unrelenting vapor of black bile that they steadfastly insist that they are kings when they are utter paupers, or that they are arrayed in purple robes when they are naked, or that they have heads made of clay, or that they are gourds, or that they are made of glass"

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

"Agathocles the Sicilian became king of Syracuse not only from private fortune but from a mean and abject one. Born of a potter, he always kept to a life of crime at every rank of his career; nonetheless, his crimes were accompanied with such virtue of spirit and body that when he turned to the military, he rose through its ranks to become praetor of Syracuse. After he was established in that rank, he decided to become prince and to hold with violence and without obligation to anyone else that which has been conceded to him by agreement. Having given intelligence of his plan to Hamilcar the Carthaginian, who was with his armies fighting in Sicily, one morning he assembled the people and Senate of Syracuse as if he had to decide things pertinent to the republic. At a signal he had ordered, he had all the senators and the richest of the people killed by his soldiers. Once they were dead, he seized and held the principate of that city without any civil controversy. And although he was defeated twice by the Carthaginians and in the end besieged, not only was he able to defend his city but also, leaving part of his men for defense agaisnt the siege, he attacked Africa with the others. "

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"And I know that everyone will confess that it would be a very praiseworthy thing to find in a prince all of the above-mentioned qualities that are held good. But because he cannot have them, nor wholly observe them, since human conditions do not permit it, it is necessary for him to be so prudent as to know how to avoid the infamy of those vices that would take his state from him and to be on guard against those that do not, if that is possible; but if one cannot, one can let them go on with less hesitation."

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"And although they are like this, it is not as if men, when times are quiet, could not provide for them with dikes and dams so that when they rise later, either they go by a canal or their impetus is neither so wanton nor so damaging. It happens similarly with fortune, which demonstrates her power where virtue has not been put in order to resist her and therefore turns her impetus where she knows that dams and dikes have not been made to contain her"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"And furthermore one should not care about incurring the fame of those vices without which it is difficult to save one's state; for if one considers everything well, one will find something appears to be virtue, which if pursued would be one's ruin, and something else appears to be vice, which if pursued results in one's security and well-being"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"And if you consider Italy, which is the seat of these variations and that which has given them motion, you will see a country without dams and without any dike. If it had been dikes by suitable virtue, like Germany, Spain, and France, either this flood would not have brought the great variations that it has, or it would not have come here"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"And many have imagined republics and principalities that have never been seen or known to exist in truth; for it is so far from how one lives to how one should live that he who lets go of what is done for what should be done learns his ruin rather than his preservation. For a man who wants to make a profession of good in all regards must come to ruin among so many who are not good. Hence it is necessary to a prince, if he wants to maintain himself, to learn to be able not to be good, and to use this and not use it according to necessity"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"But if at the death of Alexander the duke had been healthy, everything would have been easy for him. And he told me, on the day that Julius II was created, that he had thought about what might happen when his father was dying, and had found a remedy for everything, except that he never thought that at his death he himself would also be on the point of dying"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"For besides the things that have been said, the nature of peoples is variable and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them in that persuasion. And thus things must be ordered in such a mode that when they no longer believe one can make them believe by force. Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus would not have been able to make their peoples observe their constitutions for long if they had been unarmed, as happened in our times to Brother Girolamo Savonarola"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"He was ruined in his new orders as soon as the multitude began not to believe in them, and he had no mode for holding firm those who had believed nor for making unbelievers believe. Men such as these, therefore, find great difficulty in conducting their affairs; all their dangers are along the path, and they must overcome them with virtue"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"I believe that this comes from cruelties badly used of well used. Those can be called well used (if it is permissible to speak well of evil) that are done at a stroke, out of the necessity to secure oneself, and then are not persisted in but are turned to as much utility for the subjects as one can. Those cruelties are badly used which, though few in the beginning, rather grow with time that are eliminated. Those who observe the first mode can have some remedy for their state with God and with men, as had Agathocles; as for the others it is impossible for them to maintain themselves."

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"I conclude, thus, that when fortune varies and men remain obstinate in their modes, men are happy while they are in accord, and as they come into discord, unhappy. I judge this indeed, that it is better to be impetuous than cautious, because fortune is a woman; and it is necessary, if one wants to hold her down, to beat her and strike her down. And one sees that she lets herself be won more by the impetuous than by those who proceed coldly. And so always, like a woman, she is the friend of the young, because they are less cautious, more ferocious, and command her with more audacity"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"It remains now to see what the modes and government of a prince should be with subjects and with friends. And because I know that many have written of this, I fear that in writing of it again, I may be held presumptuous, especially since in disputing this matter I depart from the orders of others. But my intent is to write something useful to whoever understands it, it has appeared to me more fitting to go directly to the effectual truth of the thing than to the imagination of it. "

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Men in general judge more by their eyes than by their hands, because seeing is given to everyone, touching to few. Everyone sees how you appear, few touch what you are; and these few dare not oppose the opinion of many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them; and in the actions of all men, and especially of princes, where there is no court to appeal to, one looks to the end"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"So let a prince win and maintain his state: the means will always be judged honorable, and will be praised by everyone. For the vulgar are taken in by the appearance and the outcome of a thing, and in the world there is no one but the vulgar; the few have a place there when the many have somewhere to lean on. A certain prince of present times, whom it is not well to name, never preaches anything but peace and faith, and is very hostile to both. If he had observed both, he would have had either his reputation or his state taken from him many times"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Someone could question how it happened that Agathocles and anyone like him, after infinite betrayals and cruelties, could live for a long time secure in his fatherland, defend himself against external enemies, and never be conspired against by his citizens, inasmuch as many others have not been able to maintain their states through cruelty even in peaceful times, not to mention uncertain times of war"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Such opportunities, therefore, made these men happy, and their excellent virtue enabled the opportunity to be recognized; hence their fatherlands were ennobled by it and became very happy"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"This has to be understood: that a prince, and especially a new prince, cannot observe all those things for which men are held good, since he is often under a necessity, to maintain his state, of acting against faith, against charity, against humanity, against religion. And so he needs to have a spirit disposed to change as the winds of fortune and variations of things command him, and as I said above, not depart from good, when possible, but know how to enter into evil, when forced by necessity"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Thus, it is not necessary for a prince to have all the above-mentioned qualities in fact, but it is indeed necessary to appear to have them. Nay, I dare say this, that by having them and always observing them, they are harmful; and by appearing to have them, they are useful, as it is to appear merciful, faithful, humane, honest, and religious, and to be so, but to remain with a spirit built so that, if you need not to be those things, you are able and know how to change to the contrary. "

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Thus, since a prince is compelled of necessity to know well how to use the beast, he should pick the fox and the lion, because the lion does not defend itself from snares and the fox does not defend itself from wolves. So one needs to be a fox to recognize snares and a lion to frighten the wolves"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Thus, whoever might consider the actions and virtue of this man will see nothing or little that can be attributed to fortune. For as was said above, not through anyone's support but through the ranks of the military, which he had gained for himself with a thousand hardships and dangers, he came to the principate and afterwards he maintained it with many spirited and dangerous policies. "

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Thus, you must know that there are two kinds of combat: one with laws, the other with force. The first is proper to man, the second to beasts; but because the first is often not enough, one must have recourse to the second. Therefore it is necessary for a prince to know well how to use the beast and the man. This role was taught covertly to princes by ancient writers who wrote that Achilles, and many other ancient princes, were given to Chiron the centaur to be raised, sot hat he would look after them with his discipline. To have as teacher a half-beast, half-man means nothing other than that a prince needs to know how to use both natures; and the one without the other is not lasting"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Yet one cannot call it virtue to kill one's citizens, betray one's friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; these modes can enable one to acquire empire, but not glory. For, if one considers the virtue of Agathocles in entering into and escaping from dangers, and the greatness of his spirit in enduring and overcoming adversities, one does not see why he has to be judged inferior to any most excellent captain. Nonetheless, his savage cruelty and inhumanity, together with his infinite crimes, do not permit him to be celebrated among the most excellent men. Thus one cannot attribute to fortune or to virtue what he achieved without either"

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

To have the prince compelled to come to live there in person, because he has no other states, makes it still easier. But, to come to those who have become princes by their own virtue and not by fortune, I say that the most excellent are Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and the like."

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent. The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living on amongst another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties, and a greater security against any, that are not of it. "

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"Secondly, I answer, such revolutions happen not upon every little mismanagement in public affairs. Great mistakes in the ruling part, many wrong and inconvenient laws, and all the slips of human frailty, will be born by the people without mutiny or murmur"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into common-wealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property. To which in the state of nature there are many things wanting"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"The great end of men's entering into society, being the enjoyment of their properties in peace and safety, and the great instrument and means of that being the laws established in that society; the first and fundamental positive law of all common-wealths is the establishing of the legislative power; as the first and fundamental natural law, which is to govern even the legislative itself, is the preservation of the society, and (as far aw will consist with the public good) of every person in it"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"The measure of property nature has well set by the extent of men's labour and the conveniencies of life: no man's labour could subdue, or appropriate all; nor could his enjoyment consume more than a small part; so that it was impossible for any man, this way, to intrench upon the right of another, or acquire to himself a property, to the prejudice of his neighbour, who would still have room for as good, and as large a possession (after the other had taken out his) as before it was appropriated. This measure did confine every man's possession to a very moderate proportion, and such as he might appropriate to himself, without injury to any body, in the first ages of the world, when men were more in danger to be lost"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"The state of war is a state of enmity and destruction: and therefore declaring by word or action, not a passionate and hasty, but a sedate settled design upon another man's life, puts him in a state of war with him against whom he has declared such an intention, and so has exposed his life to the other's power to be taken away by him, or any one that joins with him in his defence, and espouses his quarrel;"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"There cannot be a clearer demonstration of any thing, than several nations of the Americans are of this, who are rich in land, and poor in all the comforts of life; whom nature having furnished as liberally as any other people, with the materials of plenty, i.e. a fruitful soil, apt to produce in abundance, what might serve for food, raiment, and delight; yet for want of improving it by labour, have not one hundredth part of the conveniences we enjoy: and a king of a large and fruitful territory there, feeds, lodges, and is clad worse than a day-labourer in England"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"Thirdly, they must not raise taxes on the property of the people, without the consent of the people, given by themselves, or their deputies. And this properly concerns only such governments where the legislative is always in being, or at least where the people have not reserved any part of the legislative to deputies, to be from time to time chosen by themselves"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"This makes him willing to quit a condition, which, however free, is full of fears and continual dangers: and it is not without reason, that he seeks out, and is willing to join in society with others, who are already united, or have a mind to unite, for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties and estates, which I call by the general name, property."

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"Though in a constituted common-wealth, standing upon its own basis, and acting according to its own nature, that is , acting for the preservation of the community, there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains stills in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them:"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own personL this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"To this strange doctrine, viz. That in the state of nature every one has the executive power of the law of nature, I doubt not but it will be objects, that is unreasonable for men to be judges in their own cases, that self-love will make men partial to themselves and their friends: and on the other side, that ill nature, passion and revenge will carry them too far in punishing others; and hence nothing but confusion and disorder will follow, and that therefore God hath certainly appointed government to restrain the partiality and violence of men. "

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"To understand political power right, and derive it rom its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any man. A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"To which it is obvious to answer, that though in the state of nature he hath such a right, yet the enjoyment of it is very uncertain, and constantly exposed to the invasion of others: for all being kings as much as he, every man his equal, and the greater part no strict observers of equity and justice, the enjoyment of the property he has in this state is very unsafe, very unsecure."

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"Whether we consider natural reason, which tells us, that men, being once born, have a right to their preservation, and consequently to meat and drink, and such other things as nature affords for their subsistence: or revelation, which gives us an account of those grants God made of the world to Adam, and to Noah, and his sons, it is very clear, that God, as king David says, Psal cxv. 16. has given the earth to the children of men; given it to mankind in common. But this being supposed it seems to some a very great difficulty, how any one should ever come to have a property in any thing:"

Two Treatise of Government - John Locke

"Though I have said above, Chap. II. That all men by nature are equal, I cannot be supposed to understand all sorts of equality: age or virtue may give men a just precedency: exellency of parts and merit may place others above the common level: birth may subject ssome, and alliance or benefits others, to pay an observance to those to whom nature, gratitudes, or other respects, may have made it due: and yet all this consists with the equality, which all men are in, in respect of jurisdiction or dominion one over another; which was the equality I there spoke of, as proper to the business in hand, being that equal right, that every man hath, to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man"

Two Treatment of Government - John Locke