liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
THOMAS HOBBESGive an inch, he’ll take an ell.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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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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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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Every 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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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