Logo
Quote by Thomas Hobbes
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and

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

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

Category:
power
Author
Thomas Hobbes
Read Quote

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. – Thomas Hobbes

Category:
Fear
Author
Thomas Hobbes
Read Quote

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

Category:
Fear
Author
Thomas Hobbes
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Death
category

Death is softer by far than tyranny. – Aeschylus

Category:
Death

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. – Victor Hugo

Category:
Death

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word. – Laura Linney

Category:
Death

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. – Friedrich Schiller

Category:
Death

Random Quotes

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
teacher

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Integrity

You dont despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. – P. J. ORourke

Category:
best

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. – Carl Sandburg

Category:
respect