A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
![“A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself. For the right men have by Nature to protect themselves, when none else can protect them, can by no Covenant be relinquished. ... [The right] to defend ourselves…” quote by Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1f0/thomas-hobbes-1127_covenant_a-covenant-not-to-defend-myself-from-for_803261.jpg)
