For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.

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.

If you want to be successful, you have to surround yourself with successful people or successful minds

You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

George Foreman can knock down an oak tree ... but oak trees don't move.

I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.