"Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust……" — Mark Levin
"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 oversee and control the Leviathan. Are not the latter also of flesh and blood? Hobbes seems to be saying that man’s nature cannot be trusted but the nature of a ruler or a ruling assembly of men can be trusted. How so?"
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23 Quotes by Mark Levin
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What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and…
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The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists…
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Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that…
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Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and…
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We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that…
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The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our…
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Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.
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More Altruistic Quotes
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We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we…
— Mortimer Adler
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The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic…
— Jo Brand
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed…
— Theodore Beale
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A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various…
— Dalai Lama
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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever…
— Ayn Rand
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The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish,…
— Richard J. Foster
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Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always…
— Dian Fossey
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Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious…
— Karl Rahner
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If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
— Robert A. Heinlein
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There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered,…
— Roger N. Walsh
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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
— Max Beerbohm
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