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Thomas Hobbes Quotes

"The condition of man is a condition of war of everyone against everyone"
Thomas Hobbes
"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
"No arts no letters no society and which is worst of all continual fear and danger of violent death and the life of man solitary poor nasty brutish and short"
Thomas Hobbes
"The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living and a hope by their industry to obtain them"
Thomas Hobbes
"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe they are in that condition which is called war and such a war as is of every man against every man"
Thomas Hobbes
"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."
Thomas Hobbes
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