Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues. Thomas Hobbes

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

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ‘Facts’. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Thomas Hobbes

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. Thomas Hobbes

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. Thomas Hobbes

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. Thomas Hobbes