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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge."
John Locke
"The great and chief end is the preservation of property."
John Locke
"The mind is a blank slate."
John Locke
"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
John Locke
"Where there is no law, there is no freedom."
John Locke
"All mankind being all equal and independent."
John Locke
"Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others."
John Locke
"Man is naturally drawn to knowledge."
John Locke
"Those who understand not prayer know not the power of it."
John Locke
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
John Locke
"I am interested in the past only insofar as it is active in the present."
Michel Foucault
Attributed
"We think that freedom is a right, but it is more than this—it is our very existence."
Michel Foucault
Attributed
"The 'truth' is always about power relations."
Michel Foucault
Attributed
"Confession is a ritual of discourse."
Michel Foucault
"If there is no possibility of resistance, there would be no power relations."
Michel Foucault
Attributed
"Knowledge is power."
Michel Foucault
Attributed
"People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do."
Michel Foucault
Attributed
"All theory is created by and is useful for human beings."
Michel Foucault
Attributed
"Discourse is not simply that which translates struggles."
Michel Foucault
"Where there is power, there is resistance."
Michel Foucault
"Knowledge is power."
Plato
"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
Plato
Attributed
"The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful."
Plato
"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."
Plato
Attributed
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
Plato
Attributed
"The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not."
Plato
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
Attributed
"The measure of a person is what they do with power."
Plato
"Justice in the life and actions of the state is possible only as it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."
Plato
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Plato
Attributed
"The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
Socrates
Attributed
"Be as you wish to seem."
Socrates
Attributed
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Socrates
"When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser."
Socrates
Attributed
"I know that I know nothing."
Socrates
"Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good."
Socrates
"No one willingly pursues evil, nor what they think to be evil."
Socrates
Attributed
"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
Socrates
Attributed
"He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have."
Socrates
Attributed
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates