A Quote by Thomas Hobbes

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

Thomas Hobbes

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Thomas Hobbes
English - Philosopher
April 5, 1588 - December 4, 1679

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

Djuna Barnes

Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.

Jacob M. Appel

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style

Stella Gibbons

When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.

Mason Cooley

Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

Julie Burchill

Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

Brad Stone

John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.

Ethan Canin

In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose other possibilities. In the horror movies there is finally a Hobbesian state of nature: 'continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'.

Andrew Tudor

We want everything in a hurry because our primary aim must be survival in the short term. Long term thinking has seemed like a luxury in human history because lives were shorter, but with our increased longevity we have to figure out what to DO with all our time, and to pace ourselves to achieve things that we want. Hobbes might have been right when he originally wrote that life is 'nasty, poor, brutish and short', but today we are AWASH with time.

Tom Butler-Bowdon

We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.

Warren G. Bennis

Feminism seeks to turn the biggest, bloodiest carnivore in the world - passion - into a right-on cud-chewing vegan. It can never work. Sex was never meant to be that way. Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

Julie Burchill

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

Herbert Read

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Djuna Barnes

Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Djuna Barnes

The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and repressed.The human condition has changed so much since then that we can hardly imagine the way it appeared to people whose lives really were nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we need to reread Mother Goose.

Robert Darnton

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