Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

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.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

So…while we’re sitting here on this luxury yacht enjoying our bread and water, why doesn’t someone tell me the plan?

There was something of Francis in the boy, something pure and genuine and flawed. That type didn't think twice before running headlong into a burning house or a young girl's arms.

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

When God's in it, the job gets done.

And no kinds of love are better than others

You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history.

The most challenging scene for me was the spider scene, because I don't like spiders in real life. Even rubber ones I get really scared of.