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John Stuart Mill: 'What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.'

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John Stuart Mill: 'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'

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John Stuart Mill: 'It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.'

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John Stuart Mill: 'We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.'

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John Stuart Mill: 'The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.'

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John Stuart Mill: 'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.'

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

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Thomas Hobbes: 'The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.'

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