Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

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 idea of becoming a mother at sixteen was the scariest thing that she’d ever thought of.

Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops... eventually it all catches you at the same time.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

When you try to go back and watch improv on tape, it almost never feels as good as it did when a crowd was laughing at it.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results.

I remember my first check that I got for a thousand dollars, and where I grew up, I never thought I'd have a thousand dollars at one time.

I dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way