Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social..

I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking..

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes..

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent..

No arts, no letters - no society..

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies..

If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun..

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor ….

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late..

To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustic….

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing..

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of e….

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power..

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money..

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say,….

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government….

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone..

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to hi….

It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for….

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short..

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason..