Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.
Thomas HobbesWhen the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.
Thomas HobbesCorporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
Thomas Hobbes