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  Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Government, Social

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  Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

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  Society, Liberty, Nasty

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy)”, p.9, Routledge

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• Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

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  Desire, Restless, Driven

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• A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

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  Government, People, Democracy

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• How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

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  Law, Opinion, Individual

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  Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

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  Truth, Philosophy, Too Late

  Quoted by Johnson, Enemies of Society (1977). Johnson's corollary is "Survival is falsehood detected in time."

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

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  War, Men, Survival

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• It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

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  Law, Justice, Authority

  Thomas Hobbes, Alan Cromartie, Quentin Skinner (2005). “Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right: A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student, of the Common Laws of England. Questions Relative to Hereditary Right”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

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  Freedom, Law, Liberty

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

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  Fear, Men, Lasting

  Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Gert (1972). “Man and Citizen: De Homine and De Cive”, p.113, Hackett Publishing

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• If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.

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  Fun, Ifs

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• 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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  Life, Nature, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.98, Broadview Press

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• If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

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  Men, Two, Enemy

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy)”, p.82, Routledge

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• Where there is no common power, there is no law

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  Law, Leviathan, Common

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.145, eKitap Projesi

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• Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Pills

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• The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

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  Passion, Men, Reason

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

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  Life Lesson, Philosophical, Lust

  "Very Happy to Be Here!". Book by Edward Pavlik, p.137, December 1, 2006.

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• Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

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  Done, Thyself

  Thomas Hobbes (1886). “Leviathan Or The Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil”, London : [s.n.]

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• The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

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  Law, Fundamentals, Firsts

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.148, eKitap Projesi

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• The world is governed by opinion.

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  Politics, World, Opinion

  Thomas Hobbes, John Bramhall, Vere Chappell (1999). “Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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• To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

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  War, Men, Law

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

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  Passion, Madness, Mere

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

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  Mother, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.260, Hackett Publishing

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• Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

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  Ignorance, Men, Law

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.209

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• Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Silence, Atheism, Argument

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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