"The world is governed by opinion." — Thomas Hobbes

"The world is governed by opinion."

— Thomas Hobbes

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112 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes has 112 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be…
There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be…
It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do,…
Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or…
Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae…

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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. — Samuel Adams
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The human race is governed by its imagination. — Napoleon Bonaparte
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable. — Kirk Cameron
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. — Dale Carnegie
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. — Nicolas Chamfort
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a… — B R Ambedkar
Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off… — Stephen Ambrose
Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants. — Benjamin Franklin
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. — Alexander Hamilton
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions. — Alexander Hamilton

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