Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.

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.

Every good act is like a seed that we sow. We don’t know what it will bear, but it will bear some fruit some day.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

Don't try too hard to be something you're not.

We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.

But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.

If you want to be popular all the time, you will misgovern

I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn't get caught. I hope I don't go to jail for that.

When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.

My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time.