A few quotes from 'Leviathan'
I was reading some thing about Thomas Hobbes the other day and I came across some quotes from 'Leviathan'. I have reproduced the ones I liked best.
"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."
"...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."
"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."


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