Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

When it's your time you will walk right into your blessing.

Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

I saw some religious people praying in the temples, churches and another just helping on the streets

...Few more seconds....let's just check out this and this and this... one more minute.... OH, OH my god it's 12 P.M. and times has went so fast... (The Computer Effect!)

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

Industrialization came to England but has since left.

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.