HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad? — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am. ...I've got more brains than I know what to do with.… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over 'The Onion' or 'Calvin and Hobbes.' That was considered completely… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school.… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“As Thomas Hobbes observed in the 17th century, life under mob rule is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Life on a… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
CALVIN: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it's weird that we… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“The world system wide reality is the competitive dog-eat-dog war of all against all (à la Hobbes), in which only the few… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?!… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Hobbes tells Calvin that he's heard girls are made of sugar, spice, and everything nice, while boys are made of snips, snails,… — Steve Kurtz Copy Share Image
We want everything in a hurry because our primary aim must be survival in the short term. Long term thinking has seemed… — Tom Butler-Bowdon Copy Share Image
CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
“Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“A precursor to the Social Darwinists, Hobbes argued from th premise that the primordial human condition was a war fought by each… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The philosophy of Hobbes , it is true, contains nothing of modern race doctrines, which not only stir up the mob, but… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“It would be hard to point out any error more truly subversive of all the order and beauty, all the peace and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Going further than Hobbes, who relied on the general convergence of interests between the Many and the One who rules, some of… — Albert O. Hirschman Copy Share Image
I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
