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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes
Society, Liberty, Nasty
Thomas Hobbes (2016). “Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy)”, p.9, Routledge

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Thomas Hobbes
Freedom, Law, Liberty
Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

Thomas Hobbes
Liberty, Foolish
"The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition".

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

Thomas Hobbes
Men, Liberty, Able
1651 Leviathan, pt.2, ch.21.

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

Thomas Hobbes
Liberty, Deceiving, States

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

Thomas Hobbes
Liberty, Littles, Fruit

I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty , and on the other side for too much Authority , 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.

Thomas Hobbes
Liberty, May, Too Much
Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.31, eKitap Projesi

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