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Thomas Hobbes War

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.

– Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes War

The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

– Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes War

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

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Power 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

Peace Thomas Hobbes

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.

– Thomas Hobbes

Nature Power 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.

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Nature Thomas Hobbes

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

– Thomas Hobbes

Money Thomas Hobbes

Words are the money of fools.

– Thomas Hobbes

Men Power Thomas Hobbes Time War

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.

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Men Nature Thomas Hobbes

Such is the nature of men, 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.

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Legal Thomas Hobbes

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

– Thomas Hobbes

Knowledge Science Thomas Hobbes

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

– Thomas Hobbes

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