Thomas Hobbes Quotes

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

Thomas Hobbes

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• I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.

  

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• The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Fear
  • Societies
  • Consisted