Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be… — 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
If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man’s right of dominion, or to the interest… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“one who, though he never digress to read a Lecture, Moral or Political, upon his own Text, nor enter into men’s hearts,… — 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
