"Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps…" — Thomas Hobbes
"Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money."
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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always…
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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