Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

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.

Experience kills out ur weaknesses

...She says with that mistyfar-away look in her eyes. Like conjunctivitis.

a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.

Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?

Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison. "It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.

A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that's good enough.

If I sound like I'm enjoying myself, it's not artificial. It's real.

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

I'm going to live forever, or die trying !