 | John Locke (August 29, 1932 - October 28, 1704) on State and Totalitarianism(published by RevoltSource) |
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English Philosopher and Physician, Widely Regarded as one of the Most Influential of Enlightenment Thinkers and Commonly Known as the "Father of Liberalism"
: An English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, Locke is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #5 on Political Struggle Quotes >> State and Totalitarianism
“For he that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read but the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary. He that would have been insolent and injurious in the woods of America would not probably be much better on a throne, where perhaps learning and religion shall be found out to justify all that he shall do to his subjects, and the sword presently silence all those that dare question it.”
Source: Locke, John, "Second Treatise on Government," 1690. Chapter 7.
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