Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.
- Thomas Hobbes
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- Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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- The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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- Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.
- Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
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- Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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