Hobbes Quotes

64 quotes by 19 authors

The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy… — Hannah Arendt
As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the same… — Benjamin Wiker
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He… — Edmund Burke
Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not… — Bill Watterson
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open,… — John Aubrey
Calvin: Medically speaking:. That's love?!?..... Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!! — Bill Watterson
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips. — Bill Griffith
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body… — Bill Griffith
Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution… — James Otis
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On… — Alan Ryan
ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counters, not coins;… — Milton Steinberg
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose… — George Will
Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this… — Tom Hodgkinson
However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between… — Simon Mainwaring
Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force… — Steven Pinker
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. — Bill Watterson
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. — Bill Watterson
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. — Bill Watterson
Reality continues to ruin my life. — Bill Watterson

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