Thomas Hobbes Quotes

A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.

Thomas Hobbes

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• Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Force
  • Welcome
  • West

• I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Care
  • Films
  • Defend

• If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Family
  • Force
  • Really

• The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Force

• Our patience will achieve more than our force.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Force
  • Patience
  • Achieve

• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Forever
  • Force
  • Dictator

• Stupid is a great force in human affairs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Stupid
  • Force

• The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Taught
  • Debate
  • Defend

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Force
  • Beat

• The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Force
  • Terror
  • Superior

• I’ll always defend the people I love even though I’m as terrifying as a baby penguin.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • People
  • Defend
  • Terrifying

• I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
  • Search
  • Force

• As you get older you have to force yourself to have new dreams.

  

  John Travolta
  • Dream
  • Force

• Not even close, ... Once I can transfer my weight to my front leg and just do it with a lot of force, and I don't even think about it, the home runs will come.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Home
  • Force
  • Weight

• Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Strong
  • Poor
  • Afraid

• The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Important
  • Force
  • Conclusion

• Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with the like sail, and therefore God, to keep us from oversetting, puts on so much as will safest bring us to heaven, our desired port.

  

  Ezekiel Hopkins
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Vessel

• Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Students
  • Cube
  • Completed

• The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

  

  Charles Galton Darwin
  • Men
  • Science
  • Animal

• Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Creation
  • Abysses
  • Reflux

• Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

  

  James Bryant Conant
  • Science
  • Development
  • Engine

• A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Force
  • Defend
  • Covenant