Quotes by : Thomas Hobbes

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden....

If I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions....

Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menaces of....

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions....

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power,....