Quote by Thomas Hobbes
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. – Thomas Hobbes

Other quotes by Thomas Hobbes

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

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Fear
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. – Thomas Hobbes

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Prison
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The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. – Thomas Hobbes

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War
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Other Quotes from
Wisdom
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Wisdom sails with wind and time. – John Florio

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Wisdom

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. – James Newman

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Wisdom

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. – Arianna Huffington

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Wisdom

Im someone whos done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s. – Elizabeth McGovern

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Wisdom

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay

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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. – Pearl Buck

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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley

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