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
  • Succeed
  • Students

• 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
  • Made
  • Nothing

• 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

• I cannot fight everyone at once. I have to take one at a time.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Fight
  • Everyone
  • Cannot

• I refused then like I do now to let anybody tie me down

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Refused

• I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • She
  • Rest

• The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Trust
  • Service
  • Friendship

• 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