Hobbesian War Quotes & Sayings

Later, they began to explore the secret idea that Deborah shared with all the ill - that she had infinitely more power than the ordinary person and was at the same time also his inferior. — Joanne Greenberg

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. — Simone De Beauvoir

He couldn't call the bookstore haunted. Which Mark Richards considered a shame, really. — Donna K. Fitch

The transparency and intelligibility of a country with a free market economy can reassure its neighbors that it is not going on a war footing, which can defuse a Hobbesian trap and cramp a leader's freedom to engage in risky bluffing and brinkmanship. — Steven Pinker

Silence is often a measure of success. — Michael Bungay Stanier

People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love. — Patti Davis

Of course you shall set the bird free because you know that the wings need nothing but freedom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days — Plutarch

The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status. — Carl Sagan

No great leap for a man, but a leap in the dark. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Film has far more color shades. It's called 'bit depth' in digital terms. And most bit depth in digital is about twelve, but film bit depth can be twenty to thirty. And so you just have more shades of yellow and red and oranges and everything. — Greg MacGillivray

A lie twice believed is self decieved — Brandon Mull

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on. — Brad Pitt

I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do. — Oscar Hijuelos

You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct. — Betty Wright

While it is a truism to observe that if humans were angels, law would be unnecessary, we could equally turn the truism around, and note that if humans were devils, law would be pointless. In this sense, the law-making project always presupposes the improvability, if not the perfectibility, of humankind. Whether our view of human nature tends toward Hobbesian grimness or Rousseauian equanimity, we tend to think of law as critical to reducing brutality and violence. — Rosa Brooks