“ Sing to me in the language of leviathan, that I may know his name. ” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“we now have a Leviathan state, far from the limited government the Founders envisioned.” — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“s eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.” — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism." — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I would have killed him to save the Leviathan. To save you.” He put his hands on her shoulders. “It was the… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but that distinguished ichthyologer, Dr.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE, (in latine CIVITAS) which is but an Artificiall Man;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“On the fifth night of our search, I see a plesiosaur. It is a megawatt behemoth, bronze and blue-white, streaking across the… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan... — Rosita Forbes Copy Share Image
I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state. — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal. — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“The whole planet would become one big interconnected web of cameras. It was all too much to fathom, this writhing, seething mass… — Cliff Jones Jr Copy Share Image
On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Welcome to the age of paper money, where governments and central banks can manufacture as much money as they want without limit.… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
