Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; 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.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Art, War, Men

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 1, ch. 13

• Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Pride, Political, Enemy

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.312, Broadview Press

• If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Two, Enemy

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy)”, p.82, Routledge

• He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophical, Taken, Jail

  Thomas Hobbes (1651). “Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill”, p.391

• The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Night

  1651 Leviathan, pt.4, ch.44.

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