Give an inch he'll take an ell.

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.

Simbol, huruf dan angka adalah alat, sedangkan gagasan adalah roh sebuah tulisan.

Be glad for your sacred days on earth.

It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider. And Also FOX News makes people stupider.

It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

I liked roaming around by myself.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

Michael O'Donoghue was a very close friend of mine - very encouraging with my stuff, and really a great guy - but he was a no-kidding difficult person.