Thomas Hobbes Leviathan Quotations

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

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

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Where there is no common power, there is no law

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.