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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
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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, The Machine Stops
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I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.

Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
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Many criminologists believe that the source of the state’s pacifying effect isn’t just its brute coercive power but the trust it commands among the populace. After all, no state can post an informant in every pub and farmhouse to monitor breaches of the law, and those that try are totalitarian dictatorships that rule by fear, not civilized societies where people coexist through self-control and empathy. A Leviathan can civilize a society only when the citizens feel that its laws, law enforcement, and other social arrangements are legitimate, so that they don’t fall back on their worst impulses as soon as Leviathan’s back is turned.

Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it.

W.G. Pogson Smith, Leviathan
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Fish and company start to smell after three days.

Leviathan Wakes
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The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan....

Rosita Forbes
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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Deryn put her own arms around herself, but it didn't feel the same."Barking spiders," she muttered softly,

Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan
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The man was allergic to sleep.

Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan
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