Thinkers' quotes Flashcards
John Locke
“Where there is no law, there is no freedom”.
“No one ought to harm another in his life, liberty, health and property.”
“Government should always be the servant not the master of the people”.
“Government has no other end than the protection of property.”
“Only the law of nature for his rule”.
“The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, are properly his.”
Mary Wollstonecraft
“The mind has no gender”.
Adam Smith
“led by an invisible hand”
“All wealth trickles down eventually.”
J.S. Mill
“Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied”.
“We should have the freedom to pursue our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs”.
“the marketplace of ideas.”
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides.”
Friedan
“The feminist revolution had to be fought because women were stopped at a state of evolution below what they are truly capable of”.
“Men are not the enemy but fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves”.
Rawls
“A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable”.
“behind the veil of ignorance.”
“A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you’d be willing to enter it in a random place.”
“Inequalities in the ownership and control of wealth, income, and property can reduce the fair value of basic liberties.”
Jeremy Bentham
“the greatest happiness for the greatest number.”
