Hobbes Quote by David Hume

“Hobbes is not an absolutist precisely because he is an authoritarian. His scepticism about the power of reasoning, which applied no less to the…

— Efraim Podoksik

“Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to…

— Gregory B. Sadler

“Hence anyone who is to listen intelligently to lectures about what is noble and just and, generally, about the subjects of political science must…

— Aristotle

“A precursor to the Social Darwinists, Hobbes argued from th premise that the primordial human condition was a war fought by each against each,…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Political judgments are generally vain formalities, for the same passions which give rise to the accusation ordain the condemnation. Such is the atrocious logic…

— Alexandre Dumas

“The implications for politics were immense. If instead of ruthlessly pursuing his own self-interest to the detriment of others, a ruler would "curb his…

— Karen Armstrong

“In the sense of worldly advantage, it no longer signified whether people thought of him as having been an authentic man of virtue. There…

— Marisa Linton

“Revolutionary’ discipline depends on political consciousness – on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed.”

— George Orwell

“For politics is not just about things necessary and eternal, nor is it just a matter of good judgment in a given situation. It…

— Daniel Gross

“[A]s it is impossible that any man endowed with rational faculties, and being in a state of freedom, should willingly agree, without some motive…

— Henry Fielding

“licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.”

— James MacGregor Burns

“It may be necessary to make compromises in everyday politics, but we cannot compromise with our conscience.”

— Ludwig Erhard