Thomas Hobbes Quotes
it is in vaine for a man to have a Right to the end, if the Right to the necessary meanes be deny'd him.
Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English Political Philosopher, Philosophicall Rudiments Concerning Government and Society
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Sealed under duress and later repudiated by the King with Papal assistance.
See also Charles John Darling for the analogy of British justice and the Ritz Hotel.
One of the earliest codes of equality before the law for both rich and poor.
He was very conservative in almost all things, but here and with the equality of women (see {638806}) he was far ahead of his time.
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, and ethics, as well as philosophy in general.