Thomas Hobbes Quotes

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

I trust that the time may never come when the love of fame shall cease to be the sovereign passion of public men.

I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the profit motive and the sharing motive are not exclusive.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing.

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.

One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Class is more important than a game.

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

Without love, we are not free from our own self interest.

All men are animals; princes are animals whom no one has tied up.