It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

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 are God's partners in matters of life and death.

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!

I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off.

...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.

I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.

To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.

Every sport has its own cast of characters.