Top 53 Quotes About Leviathan
#1. Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.
E. M. Forster
#2. I know the fucking Bible, and there ain't no fucking Book of Leviathan.
Dan Simmons
#3. He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
Jules Verne
#4. Welcome to the age of paper money, where governments and central banks can manufacture as much money as they want without limit. Gold was the last limit. Its banishment as a standard unleashed the inflation monster and leviathan itself, which has swelled beyond comprehension.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#5. A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.
Alan Ryan
#6. If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and ... try freedom.
Murray Rothbard
#7. That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. "It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly."
"That's just what they used to say in the ads," I said ...
Michael Chabon
#8. It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
#9. s eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our own.
Herman Melville
#10. ["Love is the love of one {singularly,} with desire to be singularly beloved." - Hobbes{Leviathan, (1651), Part I, Chapter VI}.]
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#11. (Economist Robert Higgs wrote a book about this phenomenon titled Crisis and Leviathan, in which he argues that government intervention inevitably creates future problems, which results in the government's intervening even more in an attempt to correct them.)
Glenn Beck
#12. Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#13. For between true science and erroneous doctrines, ignorance is in the middle. - HOBBES, Leviathan
Neal Stephenson
#14. This understanding floats on the surface of Jija's mind for the rest of the day after Renthree leaves. The truth is beneath the surface, a Leviathan waiting to uncurl, but the waters of his thoughts are placid for now. Denial is powerful.
N.K. Jemisin
#15. Sandel hankers for the muscular debates of yesteryear, when government was not big but had bigger ambitions than today's bland Leviathan has.
George F. Will
#16. Directly above the starboard engine room, it was also in a state of almost constant vibration, the noise juddering away below their feet with an awesome, leviathan constancy.
Jojo Moyes
#17. Drawing up her spear, Ellemist lunged towards the mighty leviathan.
Muse
#18. Scorpius to Crichton "I know you're living on a stolen Leviathan with escaped prisoners, and I know that Leviathan is pregnant." "You know who the daddy is?
Paul Simpson
#19. Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.
Rick Perlstein
#20. Leviathan simply twists those words as well, creating even greater misunderstanding in an ever-increasing cycle of chaos, confusion, frustration and
Robert Hotchkin
#21. Thomas Hobbes in his 1651 masterwork Leviathan. I strongly recommend that you read part III, chapter 38, and part IV, chapter 44,
Anonymous
#22. But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the shadow of the whole rearing up behind you, and you become lost in your thoughts in part from the panic of realizing the size of that imagined leviathan.
Jeff VanderMeer
#23. Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.
Steven Pinker
#24. Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.
Ron Paul
#25. What a Kraken grasps it does not lose, be it a longship or leviathan.
George R R Martin
#26. It had moved in the midnight waters of space like a pale sea leviathan; it had passed the ancient moon and thrown itself onward into one nothingness following another.
Ray Bradbury
#27. Leviathan is not the biggest fish; - I have heard of Krakens.
Herman Melville
#28. There is something mournful and uneasy about waking up late at night on a moving train. The wheels clicked a bony rhythm, the engine growled like a distant Leviathan, and from time to time the whistle sounded a cry so lonesome it seemed to speak for the whole wide moonless night.
Robert Charles Wilson
#29. The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state.
Donald Phillip Verene
#30. Mingling their mumblings with his own mastications, thousands on thousands of sharks, swarming round the dead leviathan, smackingly feasted on its fatness.
Herman Melville
#31. Sing to me in the language of leviathan, that I may know his name.
George R R Martin
#32. There is no denying that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting both the public and the government to the potential danger of a surveillance leviathan." (p.299)
Edward Jay Epstein
#33. An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
Andre Malraux
#34. And though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.
Herman Melville
#35. Moon couldn't think of anything reassuring to say. They were trapped inside a leviathan, standing in a tunnel gnawed out by giant parasites. Going blank with terror was a perfectly rational way to react, especially for a groundling.
Martha Wells
#36. The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan ...
Rosita Forbes
#37. In the belly of Leviathan, Mr Thomas, one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.
Dean Koontz
#38. This is a leviathan I am about to ship out to sea ...
Victor Hugo
#39. Violence between the combatants may be called war; violence by the bystander against the combatants may be called law. The Leviathan theory, in a nutshell, is that law is better than war.
Steven Pinker
#41. On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!
Robert Burns
#42. I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal.
Colin Marston
#43. As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely.
(Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)
Scott Westerfeld
#44. Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.
Scott Westerfeld
#45. Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.
Has it?
Dan Simmons
#46. No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.
Scott Westerfeld
#47. Oh, this beast? It's ... perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'."
"Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled.
"And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.
Scott Westerfeld
#48. Where there is no common power, there is no law
Thomas Hobbes
#49. You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!
Scott Westerfeld
#50. The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
Thomas Hobbes
#52. You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
Scott Westerfeld
#53. Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance; kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it.
W.G. Pogson Smith
