Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

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.

Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.

Whatever else the Book of Mormon makes clear, it makes clear that every soul in every dispensation is precious to God, and therefore no age or era was-or is-left without its witness of Christ.

I think we should do meditation and yoga at work.

If Rome gets to decide everything for the north and for the south, it's not a good and just thing.

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.