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“Hell is truth seen too late.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Life is nasty, brutish, and short”
― Thomas Hobbes

“So that in the nature of man,
we find three principal causes of quarrel:

First, Competition;
Secondly, Dissidence;
Thirdly, Glory.

The first, maketh men invade for Gain;
the second, for Safety;
and the third, for Reputation.

The first use Violence, to make themselves Masters of other men's persons, wives, children and cattle;
the second, to defend them;
the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their Persons, or by reflexion in their Kindred, their Friends, their Nation, their Profession, or their Name.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
― Thomas Hobbes

“Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. ”
― Thomas Hobbes

“No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.”
― Thomas Hobbes

“When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.”
― Thomas Hobbes

“If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
― Thomas Hobbes

“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.”
― Thomas Hobbes

“He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of good and evil. For a man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the judgement, so also the conscience may be erroneous.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion”
― Hobbes

“Words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“These dictates of Reason, men use to call by the name of Lawes; but improperly: for they are but Conclusions, or Theoremes concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas Law, properly is the word of him, that by right hath command over others. But yet if we consider the same Theoremes, as delivered in the word of God, that by right commandeth all things; then are they properly called Lawes.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.”
― Thomas Hobbes

“Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent”
― Thomas Hobbes

“Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason”
― Hobbes Thomas, The ethics of Hobbes

“There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.”
― bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism

“All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice.”
― bell hooks, Teaching Community

“Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.”
― bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism

“No level of individual self-actualization alone can sustain the marginalized and oppressed. We must be linked to collective struggle, to communities of resistance that move us outward, into the world.”
― bell hooks, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France