Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

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

  Thomas Hobbes

  Freedom, Law, Liberty

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

• 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

  Life, Nature, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.98, Broadview Press

• 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".

• 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

• All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Spring, Men, Law

  Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Gert (1972). “Man and Citizen: De Homine and De Cive”, p.114, Hackett Publishing

• 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

• 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.

• 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

  Peace, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.99, Broadview Press

• A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that have been given out for miracles, according as he shall see what benefits can accrue by men's belief, to those that pretend, or countenance them, and thereby conjecture whether they be miracles or lies.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Lying, Believe, Heart

• 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

• 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

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