Source: Political Treatise (1677), Ch. 2, Of Natural Right
Context: In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.<!-- 23
“The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature;...”
Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 3 (at page 32)
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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880Related quotes
“Hate breeds hate, and love breeds love.”
Source: Summerhill (1960), p. 8
“[N]o man hates God without first hating himself.”
Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 1, p. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=ho40AAAAMAAJ&q=%22No+man+hates+God+without+first+hating+himself%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage
“Violence is man re-creating himself.”