Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

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.

It would take entire lifetimes for the men of Carthya to deserve their women.

Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness.

Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.

Success is not random.

It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.

The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.

Learn to walk in God’s perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough.

The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.

There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.