In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

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.

History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are.

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

People get caught up in formulaic answers. When one doesn't work, they just go on to the next.

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.

I'm a bit of a groupie.

Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.

I'm very free-spirited.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God