"He that is taken and put into prison……" — Thomas Hobbes
"He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy."
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112 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes has 112 quotes on this site.
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Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?
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All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be…
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There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be…
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The world is governed by opinion.
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It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do,…
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or…
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
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I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost…
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Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney…
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of…
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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
— Wernher von Braun
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
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