Colonial Sense: Society-Lifestyle: Colonial Quotes

...in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. I, ch. 11	— Thomas Hobbes
Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of good and evil. For a man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the judgement, so also the conscience may be erroneous. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. I, ch. 1	— Thomas Hobbes
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. II, ch. 29	— 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. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. I, ch. 13	— Thomas Hobbes
For the laws of nature (as justice, equity, modesty, mercy, and, in sum, doing to others as we woud be done to) of themselves, without the terror of some power, to cause them to be observed, are contrary to our natural passions, that carry us to partiality, pride, revenge and the like. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. I, ch. 1	— Thomas Hobbes
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. — attributed last words	— Thomas Hobbes
In these four things, opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotions towards what men fear, and taking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seed of religion; which by reason of the different fancies, judgements, and passions of several men, hath grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part rediculous to another. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. I, ch. 12	— Thomas Hobbes
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. II, ch. 31	— Thomas Hobbes
Leisure is the mother of philosophy. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. I, ch. 1	— Thomas Hobbes
Man gives indifferent names to one and the same thing from the difference of their own passions; as they that approve a private opinion call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. I, ch. 11	— Thomas Hobbes
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. I, ch. 15	— Thomas Hobbes
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death: and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. I, ch. 13	— Thomas Hobbes
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. II, ch. 27	— Thomas Hobbes
To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. I, ch. 13	— Thomas Hobbes
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man. — from Leviathan, 1651, Pt. I, ch. 4	— Thomas Hobbes