Hobbesian State Quotes

#1. The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.

Charles Krauthammer

#2. If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didn't make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn't exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?

Andrea Gibson

#3. All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

Emilio Estevez

#4. If a country is suspected of going nuclear, you need to understand why. Why does it feel insecure?

Mohamed ElBaradei

#5. They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.

Boris Pasternak

#6. Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.

Heather Marsh

#7. A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

Jack Spicer

#8. One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

Gary Locke

#9. Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.

Isabel Allende

#10. The only thing worse than a voice inside your head is a voice inside your head that only speaks in riddles.

Pierdomenico Baccalario

#11. It appears she has taken an exorbitant quantity of heroin.' 'Oh dear.' I pushed my plate aside. 'What condition did she have to take it for?' 'Boredom.' He stood up. 'She has so little to do with her time since she came out of prison.' I

M.R.C. Kasasian

#12. Love is a better master than duty.

Albert Einstein

#13. God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.

Chris Oyakhilome

#14. False praise is always confined to the great.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

#15. I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven.

Shan Sa