Quotes By Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

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.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.