Thomas Hobbes Quotes

To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

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.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

War and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.

And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks.

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

We won’t be carrying on with government. We’ll be grubbing for worms.

Nothing like war reveals man in the same strength—their courage, their stupidity, their fears, their hopes, their ugliness ….

Doesn't it strike you as queer that I, who couldn't cut the head off a chicken, and who was sick at the sight of blood, should be cast into the middle of a great war, with blood flowing all about me.

We must accept the possibility of bloodshed if we are to bring about order.

Terror is the order of the day.

Destroyer of Villages