Political Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

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The reputation of power IS power.

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To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

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Reason is the Soul of the Law.

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Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

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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,…

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To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right…

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Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good,…

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“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles,…

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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 be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be only to consider, if he…

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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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