Hobbesian Famous Quotes & Sayings
19 Hobbesian Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
In order to survive women have developed their second attention, which men have not evolved. They use the second attention, and have used it most effectively, to manipulate men; it's a justifiable reaction that has been necessary for survival.— Frederick Lenz
Hobbesian individualism;— Clive Thompson
We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.— Simon Van Booy
But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.— Marya Hornbacher
Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind.— Nyanaponika Thera
I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.— Joyce Maynard
Some things are more than we can understand.— Christie Watson
Now that I know you're okay, what bothers me most is your irresponsibility. I have no idea what's gotten into you.— Cherrie Lynn
I do, she wanted to say. He's around six-two, heavily tattooed and fucks like a god.
There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by Hobbesian yahoos of the right. Among the former, one sees the upholding of the view that a gentleman's business and property are his own, and none of the government's. Among the latter, a distaste for democracy, for taxation, and for the need to consult others about the planet.— Christopher Hitchens
I lay my heart at your feet because you own me, baby.— Sydney Landon
I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.— Emily Dickinson
The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.— Charles Krauthammer
But further, Hobbesian individualism required that traditional independent social authorities be eliminated or suppressed. Benjamin Constant, who was a keen observer of the French Revolution, explained why: "The interests and memories which spring from local customs contain a germ of resistance which is so distasteful to authority that it hastens to uproot it. Authority finds private individuals easier game: its enormous weight can flatten them out effortlessly as if they were so much sand.— Donald W. Livingston
I know what I'm doing even when I'm wearing a pencil skirt.— Shakira
I think that you could be whatever you wanted to be if you could realize all the dreams you have inside.— Joey McIntyre
Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.— Bill Burr
From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent his deep-set eyes upon her in his turn, perhaps he might have seen one wavering moment in her, when she was impelled to throw herself upon his breast, and give him the pent-up confidences of her heart. But, to see it, he must have overleaped at a bound the artificial barriers he had for many years been erecting, between himself and all those subtle essences of humanity which will elude the utmost cunning of algebra until the last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck. The barriers were too many and too high for such a leap. With his unbending, utilitarian, matter-of-fact face, he hardened her again; and the moment shot away into the plumbless depths of the past, to mingle with all the lost opportunities that are drowned there.— Charles Dickens
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
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
