The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

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.

A terrible independence opens the door to destructive power of sin

When faced with a problem, don't keep on discussing it. Go beyond the mental barrier to resolve it.

The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.

In every trial Let understanding fight for you.

You don't have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

I think the one thing of me that they really wanted to capitalize on is my dorkiness

I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'