It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Author: Thomas Hobbes
War consisteth not in battle only or the act of fighting but in a tract of time wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
War consisteth not in battle only or the act of fighting but in a tract of time wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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 to protect them.
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 to protect them.
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 war as if of every man against every man.
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 war as if of every man against every man.
That a man be willing when others are so too as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself.
That a man be willing when others are so too as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
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 nature that is to say of his own life.
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 nature that is to say of his own life.
Such is the nature of men that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty or more eloquent or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Such is the nature of men that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty or more eloquent or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Science is the knowledge of consequences and dependence of one fact upon another.
Science is the knowledge of consequences and dependence of one fact upon another.
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.