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
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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 -
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 -
The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
Adam Carolla -
Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
Irving Thalberg -
In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
Abu Bakr -
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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Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
Adam Cohen -
We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
Laura Wade -
Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
Kapil Sibal -
We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we're Mediterranean, and timing isn't our forte.
Rabih Alameddine -
We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
Barry Schuler
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
W. H. Auden -
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Karl Kraus -
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
Adam Ferguson -
The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.
Dan Jenkins -
I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
Samuel Alito -
There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a lot of thuggish, vigilante behavior by groups like the Sons of Liberty.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Many bands that I like that have longevity on their side with consistent members are even splits. It makes a big difference to have the other two guys involved every step of the way. It keeps the thing moving. Everyone is taken with equal degree of seriousness. It's not just because it's a four-way partnership. It also relates to taking things maturely and taking other people's thoughts into consideration.
Alex Chilton Big Star -
I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.
Alice Moore Hubbard -
I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.
Erica Brown -
A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
Jack Ma -
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
Homer -
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
Thomas Hobbes