Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
THOMAS HOBBESEvery part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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