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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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 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
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
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
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man. — 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
If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For naturall Bloud is in like manner made of the fruits of the Earth; and circulating, nourisheth by the way, every Member… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
From the same it proceedeth,that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions:… — 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
Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
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 Image
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/1f0/thomas-hobbes-1127_covenant_a-covenant-not-to-defend-myself-from-for_803261.jpg)
