The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

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.

If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.

Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.