I put for the general inclination of all mankind, ... -Thomas Hobbes

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Thomas Hobbes , Philosopher
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Thomas Hobbes Quotes to Explore

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known....
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues....
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death....
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, a...
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone....
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto....
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him....
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome....
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to...
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law....

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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is ba...
Heart power is stronger than horsepower....
When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a ...
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the li...
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fas...
Some essential oils, a nice massage followed by a power nap helps me start my Sunday on the right note. After a week full of running around, this beco...
The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the powe...
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place....
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corpora...
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating....