...licentious by Impunity. This is to think that Men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what Mischiefs may be done them by Pole-cats, or Foxes, but are content, nay think it Safety, to be devoured by Lions. (Locke 1988 [1690], p. 328)1° Accordingly Locke can be seen as advocating...

...Locke asks, a little incredulously, 'Are men so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay think it safety, to be devoured by lions?' Perhaps the problem is further upstream, somewhere in Hobbes' conception...

...subjects must accept it 'is to think that Men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what Mischiefs may be done them by Pole-cats, or Foxes, but are content, nay think it Safety, to be devoured by Lions'. M He was convinced that citizens possessed of the right to resist...

...dangerous a tyranny: "This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats, or foxes, but are content, nay think it safety, to be devoured by lions" (Two Treatises, 2.93)." The superior claim of some (presumptively)...

...licentious by impunity. This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions. 94. But, whatever flatterers may talk to amuse people's understandings,...

...side with John Locke, who doubted that "men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions" ([1690] 1980. 50). Classical liberal theorists of the eighteenth and...