He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

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 rape willtear youin halfbut it will notend you

Having a ‘taste for life’ is about knowing its various flavours and awaiting the next meal.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy

When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids decision not to drink alcohol.