That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel , when… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin… And therefore it is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel: First, Competition; Secondly, Dissidence; Thirdly, Glory. The first,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
And because the condition of Man, (as hath been declared in the precedent Chapter) is a condition of Warre of every one… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no… — 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… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different:… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as… — 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)
