"Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels……" — Thomas Hobbes
"Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man."
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Thomas Hobbes
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112 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes has 112 quotes on this site.
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All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be…
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There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be…
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The world is governed by opinion.
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It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do,…
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or…
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More Bowels Quotes
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of…
— Karl Marx
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All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
— Francois Fenelon
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I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity…
— Samuel Rutherford
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No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face.
— Joan Rivers
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The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his…
— Truman G. Madsen
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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
— John Calvin
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If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is…
— Lin Yutang
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
— Abraham Verghese
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Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.
— Oliver Cromwell
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Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of…
— William Shakespeare
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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The bath soothes the nerves. It promotes general perspiration, quickens the circulation, overcomes obstruction in the system, and acts beneficially…
— Ellen G. White
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