Words are 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.

Dementia was like a truth serum.

Surround yourselves with trustworthy people. If you don't, all the weaponry and tactics in the world can't save you.

All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.

When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.