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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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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.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding or some error in reasoning or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
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But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth because igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.
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No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
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Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
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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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The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
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As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.
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Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.
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That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.
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If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.
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They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.
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