Thomas Hobbes

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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.
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
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.
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.
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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.
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.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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.
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.

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