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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. - Thomas Hobb

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. – Thomas Hobbes

Other quotes by Thomas Hobbes

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. – Thomas Hobbes

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Death
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Thomas Hobbes
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. – Thomas Hobbes

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Fear
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Thomas Hobbes
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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

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War
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Thomas Hobbes
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If Scotland and America go to war, Im afraid Ive already sworn in. – Craig Ferguson

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Theres no doubt that usually a presidents public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me. – Jimmy Carter

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What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil

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War

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because its a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play. – Sloane Crosley

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