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. - Thomas Hobbes 1 Share Now -
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. - Thomas Hobbes 2 Share Now -
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. - Thomas Hobbes 3 Share Now -
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. - Thomas Hobbes 4 Share Now -
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. - Thomas Hobbes 5 Share Now -
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. - Thomas Hobbes 6 Share Now -
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. - Thomas Hobbes 7 Share Now -
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. - Thomas Hobbes 8 Share Now -
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death. - Thomas Hobbes 9 Share Now -
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. - Thomas Hobbes 10 Share Now -
