Peace Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

11 Peace quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes tackles peace from a philosophical angle in these eleven compact notes, reminding us that order and tranquility are often linked to deeper social contracts.

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The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

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Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.

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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by…

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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can…

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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend…

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

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For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to…

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If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without…

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“Give an inch, he'll take an ell.”

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Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure;…

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Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

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He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it…

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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their…

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Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it…

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

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“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.”

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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

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Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered…

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