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Biography: Thomas Hobbes is known for his influential work in political philosoph... more Biography: Thomas Hobbes is known for his influential work in political philosophy, particularly his book "Leviathan." Born in 1588 in England, Hobbes developed the social contract theory, arguing that a strong central authority is necessary to prevent the chaos of a state of nature. His ideas laid the groundwork for modern political science. less
"The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good."
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"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."
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"The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was entrusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people."
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"Liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and in the intrinsic quality of the agent."
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"Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome."
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"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous."
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"It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law"
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"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe they are in that condition which is called war and such a war as is of every man against every man"
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"The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living and a hope by their industry to obtain them"
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"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues"
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"Hell is truth seen too late"
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"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force to take away his life"
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"Curiosity is the lust of the mind"
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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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"In the state of nature, profit is the measure of right"
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