Thomas Hobbes Quotes

“He read Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, and Niccolò Machiavelli.”

— Sebastian Mallaby

“Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness.”

— David Hume

“As Thomas Hobbes observed in the 17th century, life under mob rule is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Life on a…

— Steve McConnell

Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a…

— Simon Mainwaring

The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke,…

— Simon Mainwaring

ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are…

— Milton Steinberg

“Thomas Hobbes said that man is a wolve for anothe one. It seems to me that this became the basic foundation ideology…

— Steinar Stjernø

About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's…

— John Aubrey

“The beliefs and behaviour of the Restoration reflect the theories of society put forward by Thomas Hobbes in The Leviathan, which was…

— Ronald Carter

“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

“One reason might be that if I hadn't tripped, I'd have been hamburger. When this sort of thing occurs, people often say…

— Paul Quarrington