The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

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.

The power of greatness lies within each of us.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

I'll be whatever you allow me to be, Blaire. Just don't shut me out again. Please.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.

I am a book I neither wrote nor read.

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn.

If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.