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Quote by Thomas Hobbes
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. - Thomas Ho

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. – Thomas Hobbes

Other quotes by Thomas Hobbes

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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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. – Thomas Hobbes

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Peace
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Thomas Hobbes
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. – Thomas Hobbes

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power
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Thomas Hobbes
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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The mountains are calling and I must go. – John Muir

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Nature

Gossip is natures telephone. – Sholom Aleichem

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Nature

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. – Thomas Aquinas

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Nature

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. – Phillips Brooks

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Nature

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Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect. – Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

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The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president. – David Herbert Donald

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Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependent upon popular opinion? – William Lloyd Garrison

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