Quote by Thomas Hobbes
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. – Thomas Hobbes

Other quotes by 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. – Thomas Hobbes

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power
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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

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Nature
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. – Thomas Hobbes

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alone
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. – Wendell Phillips

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One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, youd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. – George H. W. Bush

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War

With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. Theyre not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance. – Pitbull

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War

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. – François Fénelon

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Reason also is choice. – John Milton

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Logic

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends houses. I like places where theres stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Home

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them. – Floyd Abrams

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respect

One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god. – Jean Rostand

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God