Hobbes

Famous quotes containing the word hobbes:

“There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)

“Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

“A man’s conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)