Models Quote by Bill Watterson Download Open image “Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.” — Bill Watterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Models Peace Play Role models Roles War
“Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to other human beings is not constituted simply by the structures of human passions, interests, and desires, nor by the addition of a self-deceptive and egotistical desire for recognition and proof of one’s perhaps illusory power. In… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share
“A precursor to the Social Darwinists, Hobbes argued from th premise that the primordial human condition was a war fought by each against each, so brutal and incesssant that it was impossible to develop industry or even agriculture or the arts while that condition persisted. It's this description that culmintes in his famous epithet "And the life of man, solitary,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“But Calvinists have never been pacifists: they have always been all too ready for a fight.” — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
“Hobbes is not an absolutist precisely because he is an authoritarian. His scepticism about the power of reasoning, which applied no less to the ‘artificial reason’ of the Sovereign than to the reasoning of the natural man, together with the rest of his individualism, separate him from the rationalist dictators of his or any age. Indeed, Hobbes, without being himself… — Efraim Podoksik Copy Share
“If it were but known that the combined might of the world was against aggression, the war-minded could only seek his salvation in peace,… — Eden Phillpotts Copy Share Image
“When will world leaders learn that you can never obtain peace by using war and aggression. They must find other avenues that will lead… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines who they… — Lucas Bale Copy Share Image
Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of… — 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
For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it! — Bill Watterson Copy Share
I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers! Calvin: I just don't test well. — Bill Watterson Copy Share
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal turns into an ordinary, boring molecule of water just like every other one when you bring it into the classroom. And now, while the analogy sinks in, I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything on my own and turning it in to them and having it rejected or accepted, I was working much more directly with the syndicate, turning in smaller batches much more frequently, and getting comments on them. The idea… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
I would tell kids not be like me, but to try and be better than me. Because I always wanted to be better than… — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band,… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me. — Fatima Siad Copy Share Image
Samuelson spotted a mistake in Bacheliers work. Bachelier's model had failed to consider that stock prices cannot fall below zero. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked,… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their… — Marla Gibbs Copy Share Image
