About John Locke:
John Locke is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John LockeThe dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John LockeThere cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John LockeParents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke