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.

Quote by Thomas Hobbes

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The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or...

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or...

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power,...

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power,...

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force,...

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force,...

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract...

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract...

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy;...

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy;...

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency...

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency...

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome;...

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome;...

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because...

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because...

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of...

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of...

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or...

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or...

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise...

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise...

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Words are the money of fools. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon...

Words are the money of fools. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon...

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called Facts. They are the...

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called Facts. They are the...

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking...

And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking...

University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now...

University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now...