For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

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.

We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.

success is easy with just a prayer, encouragement and patience!

Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

Anti-theism presupposes Theism

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

Edgar found a way to get the ball where nobody was standing.

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.