It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

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.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

You won't become a billionaire if you're always afraid. You may become a thousandier or even a hundred thousandier but you won't enjoy the money anyway.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

After six months of building muscle mass I can now confirm that muscle mass creates increased tolerance to biologically harmful radiation sources.

I've been estranged from my father since I was eight.

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.

You are the person who determines what you do. That's a big responsibility. Make the most of it.

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.