"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
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Men
More From Thomas Hobbes
- "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."
- "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."
- "Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."
More In Men
- "Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."― Edmund Burke
- "The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense."― George Berkeley
- "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."― Thomas Jefferson