It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.

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 God that we commonly know may be less sinister than the true God that we don't know for sure.

The original language of Christianity is translation.

In the light, we shall brightly.

they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...

Entrepreneurs don´t play safe, they play good.

You have to erect a fence and say "Okay scale this."

Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

I never believe facts Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.

Sit," Chloe said, dashing after him and tugging firmly at his sleeve. "Let's hear the rest of it. You can kill him later." ~Chloe to Dageus.

The majority of short term trading results are just random. In the long term the money ends up with those that can trade and manage risk.