Society and the World

Liberties … depend on the silence of the law.

Liberties … depend on the silence of the law.

For as the nature of foul weather, lieth not in a shower or two of rain; but in an inclination thereto of many days together: so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary.

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.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

By art is created that great Leviathan, called a commonwealth or state, (in Latin civitas) which is but an artificial man … and in which, the sovereignty is an artificial soul.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,

Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in,

A servant with this clause

Away; take heed:

I struck the board, and cried, ‘No more.

Maximilien Robespierre was nothing but the hand of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the bloody hand that drew from the womb of time the body whose soul Rousseau had created.

Dort, wo man Bücher

Dort, wo man Bücher

Between my finger and my thumb

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy

What of the faith and fire within us