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Power Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
- The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
- During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a…
- To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice…
- The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
- The reputation of power IS power.
- The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given…
- The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own…
- I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
- The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able…
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