"When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death."
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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a seminal English philosopher best known for his political theory articulated in his landmark work, *Leviathan*. Born in the turbulent times preceding the English Civil War, Hobbes posited that human life in a natural state is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short," necessitating a powerful sovereign for societal order. His ideas laid the groundwork for modern political philosophy, influencing thinkers from John Locke to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Hobbes’ legacy endures as a foundational figure in the discourse on governance and human nature.
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"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."
Thomas Hobbes
"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."
Thomas Hobbes"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."
Thomas Hobbes
"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."
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"Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion."
Thomas Hobbes
"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."
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