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. -Thomas Hobbes Power
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 War
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. -Thomas Hobbes Future
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. -Thomas Hobbes War
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. -Thomas Hobbes Nature
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 Peace
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 War
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. -Thomas Hobbes Religion
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. -Thomas Hobbes Power
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 Time
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 Power
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 Death
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. -Thomas Hobbes Power
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 Men
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. -Thomas Hobbes Men
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. -Thomas Hobbes Death
