Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• 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.

  Thomas Hobbes

  War, Men, Law

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

• For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Sick, Religion, Pills

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 3, ch. 32

• Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

  Thomas Hobbes

  War, Two, Hype

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 13 (1651)

• In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and not by their mediocrity, nor by their being commended. For several men praise several customs, and, contrarily, what one calls vice, another calls virtue, as their present affections lead them.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Evil, Vices

  Thomas Hobbes (2014). “Behemoth or The Long Parliament”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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