Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

Thomas Hobbes

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• I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Believe
  • Teach
  • I Believe

• Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Remember
  • Hard
  • Drunk

• I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Business
  • Help
  • Write

• We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Live
  • Mind

• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Lost
  • Failure
  • Learn

• Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Working
  • Students
  • Succeed

• First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Future
  • Perspective

• Nothing was made in Trinidad.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Nothing
  • Made

• Τελεῖται δ' ἐς τὸ πεπρωμένον·οὔθ' ὑποκαίων οὔτ' ἐπιλείβωνοὔτε δακρύων ἀπύρων ἱερῶνὀργὰς ἀτενεῖς παραθέλξει.

  

  Aeschylus

• The only person I do worry about, that I want to be a good person for, I think is my responsibility, is my sister. I'm going to be cool for you, okay. I like, I need to, I like being by myself right now. I think it's good for me.

  

  Britney Spears
  • Good
  • Responsibility
  • Cool

• Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Today
  • Strong

• I've been writing way before 'X Factor,' and I've been doing shows before 'X Factor.' And everything I did on this show was me being me. Same way I acted in the show is the same way I act now as an artist.

  

  Astro
  • Writing

• When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Life
  • Monday
  • Glitter

• You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Opportunity
  • Summer

• When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.

  

  Danny Pudi
  • Running
  • Weird
  • Shoes

• I am committed to helping our farmers in any way that I can.

  

  Elise Stefanik

• Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

  

  David Yates

• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Done
  • Today

• I believe that the evidence will show that there was not so much a conspiracy, but a convergence of interests with three different groups that had an interest in eliminating [Malcolm X] voice and his vision.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Vision

• Find your passion and run with it. Anything is possible.

  

  Kendall Schmidt Big Time Rush
  • Running
  • Passion

• Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Laws
  • Greed
  • Corporations

• And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Charity
  • Commonwealth
  • Soveraign

• Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Corporations
  • Commonwealth
  • Natural Man