If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

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.

A responsible woman guides, controls (albeit subtly), directs with superior knowledge that is higher than that of her contemporaries!

Snatching my hand in the death grip of his fingers, he pulls me off the wall to line his chest, closing his body around me in a muscular cage which smells of leather and soap.

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

There is no retracing our steps.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

How well opposed to grand Theft Auto are you?