Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that corporations, while significant, are ultimately subservient to the larger interests of society, much like worms in a personβs body.
Thomas Hobbes uses this metaphor to illustrate the relationship between corporations and society. He implies that corporations may have their own power and influence, yet they are still part of a larger social structure and exist for the benefit of the greater public. The imagery of worms in the entrails emphasizes a certain parasitic nature that could suggest exploitation or dependency, indicating that while corporations may thrive, they do so within the bounds established by the natural person or society as a whole.
In practice
In a speech about corporate responsibility, one could use this quote to highlight the importance of prioritizing societal welfare.
Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth
It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.
But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
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