--- title: "20 Ifs Quotes By Thomas Hobbes" description: "20 Ifs quotes by Thomas Hobbes. Plus more from Thomas Hobbes and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/thomas-hobbes-1127_book_if-i-read-as-many-books-as-most-men-do-i_2741580.jpg" --- > [If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/if-i-read-as-many-books-as-most-men-do-i-would-be-as-dull-witted-as/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/thomas-hobbes-1127_book_if-i-read-as-many-books-as-most-men-do-i_2741580.jpg) > [If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/if-nobody-makes-you-do-it-it-counts-as-fun/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a27/thomas-hobbes-1127_fun_if-nobody-makes-you-do-it-it-counts-as-f_1716422.jpg) > [If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/if-i-had-read-as-much-as-other-men-i-would-have-known-no-more-than/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfb/thomas-hobbes-1127_books_if-i-had-read-as-much-as-other-men-i-wou_2455870.jpg) > [For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/for-if-all-things-were-equally-in-all-men-nothing-would-be-prized/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd4/thomas-hobbes-1127_all-things_for-if-all-things-were-equally-in-all-me_1111770.jpg) > [For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/for-all-uniting-of-strength-by-private-men-is-if-for-evil-intent/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/376/thomas-hobbes-1127_concealed_for-all-uniting-of-strength-by-private-m_998972.jpg) > [If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/if-any-two-men-desire-the-same-thing-which-nevertheless-they-cannot/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2dc/thomas-hobbes-1127_desire_if-any-two-men-desire-the-same-thing-whi_3154050.jpg) > [How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/how-could-a-state-be-governed-or-protected-in-its-foreign-relations/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/444/thomas-hobbes-1127_foreign-relations_how-could-a-state-be-governed-or-protect_602366.jpg) > [And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/and-if-a-man-consider-the-original-of-this-great-ecclesiastical/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b99/thomas-hobbes-1127_deceased_and-if-a-man-consider-the-original-of-th_1320805.jpg) > [But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/but-if-one-subject-giveth-counsell-to-another-to-do-anything-contrary/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32a/thomas-hobbes-1127_bounds_but-if-one-subject-giveth-counsell-to-an_1484545.jpg) > [If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/if-this-superstitious-fear-of-spirits-were-taken-away-and-with-it/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/186/thomas-hobbes-1127_abuse_if-this-superstitious-fear-of-spirits-we_908298.jpg) > [It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/it-is-manifest-therefore-that-they-who-have-sovereign-power-are/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c47/thomas-hobbes-1127_christ_it-is-manifest-therefore-that-they-who-h_2199548.jpg) > [To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/to-speak-impartially-both-sayings-are-very-true-that-man-to-man-is-a/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d75/thomas-hobbes-1127_cities_to-speak-impartially-both-sayings-are-ve_1908036.jpg) > [The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/the-oath-adds-nothing-to-the-obligation-for-a-covenant-if-lawful/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75c/thomas-hobbes-1127_add_the-oath-adds-nothing-to-the-obligation_1642846.jpg) > [ \[Necessity is\] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/necessity-is-the-sum-of-all-things-which-being-now-existent-conduce/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3e/thomas-hobbes-1127_action_necessity-is-the-sum-of-all-things-which_904190.jpg) > [ But his Lordship \[tells\]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/but-his-lordship-tells-us-that-god-is-wholly-here-and-wholly-there/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9db/thomas-hobbes-1127_believe_but-his-lordship-tells-us-that-god-is-wh_2417886.jpg) > [He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/he-that-is-to-govern-a-whole-nation-must-read-in-himself-not-this-or/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aeb/thomas-hobbes-1127_demonstration_he-that-is-to-govern-a-whole-nation-must_81443.jpg) > [If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/if-we-could-suppose-a-great-multitude-of-men-to-consent-to-the/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec0/thomas-hobbes-1127_awe_if-we-could-suppose-a-great-multitude-of_2162888.jpg) > [For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/for-if-i-should-not-believe-all-that-is-written-by-historians-of-the/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23e/thomas-hobbes-1127_authority_for-if-i-should-not-believe-all-that-is_1951293.jpg) > [If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/if-god-bestowed-immortality-on-every-man-then-when-he-made-him-and-he/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/984/thomas-hobbes-1127_capable_if-god-bestowed-immortality-on-every-man_2387502.jpg) > [And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor) shall forbid me to say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/and-i-profess-still-that-whatsoever-the-church-of-england-the-church/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/584/thomas-hobbes-1127_christ_and-i-profess-still-that-whatsoever-the_966749.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Thomas Hobbes > [“Give an inch, he'll take an ell.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/give-an-inch-he-ll-take-an-ell/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/do-not-that-to-another-which-thou-wouldst-not-have-done-to-thyself/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/for-it-is-with-the-mysteries-of-our-religion-as-with-wholesome-pills/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/intemperance-is-naturally-punished-with-diseases-rashness-with/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/a-man-s-conscience-and-his-judgment-is-the-same-thing-and-as-the/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/he-that-is-to-govern-a-whole-nation-must-read-in-himself-not-this-or/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/if-men-are-naturally-in-a-state-of-war-why-do-they-always-carry-arms/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/let-a-man-as-most-men-do-rate-themselves-as-the-highest-value-they/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/a-free-man-is-he-that-in-those-things-which-by-his-strength-and-wit/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/covenants-without-the-sword-are-but-words-and-of-no-strength-to/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/fear-of-things-invisible-in-the-natural-seed-of-that-which-everyone/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/because-silver-and-gold-have-their-value-from-the-matter-itself-they/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/what-reason-is-there-that-he-which-laboreth-much-and-sparing-the/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/the-cause-of-sense-is-the-external-body-or-object-which-presseth-the/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/the-characters-of-man-s-heart-blotted-and-confounded-as-they-are-with/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/thomas-hobbes/#itemlist", "name": "20 Ifs Quotes By Thomas Hobbes", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Hobbes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/if-i-read-as-many-books-as-most-men-do-i-would-be-as-dull-witted-as/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/thomas-hobbes-1127_book_if-i-read-as-many-books-as-most-men-do-i_2741580.jpg", "contentUrl": 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