Thomas Hobbes Quotes
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
Thomas Hobbes
Quotes to Explore
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When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
Rabih Alameddine
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
Adam Carolla
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Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
Irving Thalberg
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In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
Abu Bakr
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
Walter Kirn
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It's only that we live in a patriarchal society, and therefore, the word 'feminism' has to be used as a counter to patriarchy. But feminism is about being equal. The word used should be 'equalist,' as it is about all humans being equal and respecting each other for that.
Kalki Koechlin
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What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
Karen Bender
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Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.
William Shakespeare
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Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.
Washington Allston
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All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
Thomas Hobbes