There is no god Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

“Give an inch, he'll take an ell.”

— Thomas Hobbes

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

— Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

— Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

— Thomas Hobbes

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

— Thomas Hobbes

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