Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
THOMAS HOBBESA man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
-
-
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 -
For such is the nature of man, 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 -
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 -
A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
THOMAS HOBBES -
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
THOMAS HOBBES -
Some men’s desires are without limits.
THOMAS HOBBES -
Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
THOMAS HOBBES -
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
THOMAS HOBBES -
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
THOMAS HOBBES -
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
THOMAS HOBBES -
For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
THOMAS HOBBES -
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
THOMAS HOBBES -
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
THOMAS HOBBES -
Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
THOMAS HOBBES -
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBES