Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time

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.

Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement, '" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.

Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and see and earth.

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.

Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.

The secret of making progress is to get started.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

Life is short, you better make the most of it.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.