Leviathan Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but…
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan...
— Rosita Forbes
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If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be…
— Murray Rothbard
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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
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Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions of…
— Ron Paul
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He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
— Jules Verne
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Leviathan is not the biggest fish; — I have heard of Krakens.
— Herman Melville
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Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost…
— Ron Paul
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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
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My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'
— Steven Spielberg
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She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of a leviathan's roar,…
— Sonya Hartnett
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Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix…
— Oscar Wilde
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That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan.…
— Michael Chabon
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Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been…
— Virginia Woolf
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Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or individuals who will…
— Mark Levin
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I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing…
— Henry Miller
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LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but that distinguished ichthyologer, Dr. Jordan, of Stanford…
— Ambrose Bierce
Who Wrote These Leviathan Quotes
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