If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel: First, Competition; Secondly, Dissidence; Thirdly, Glory. The first,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to… — 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
