Liberty Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

— Thomas Hobbes

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

— Thomas Hobbes

There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

— Thomas Hobbes

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

— Thomas Hobbes

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not…

— Thomas Hobbes

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation…

— Thomas Hobbes

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

— Thomas Hobbes

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of…

— Thomas Hobbes

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged…

— Thomas Hobbes

I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it.…

— Thomas Hobbes

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall…

— Thomas Hobbes

A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that…

— Thomas Hobbes