The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

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.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.

Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.

Everyone you see is you in a different time & space.

All I do is work out, oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.