Man and Citizen Quotes

“... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Man and Citizen

“[W]hat else are many commonwealths, than so many camps strengthened with arms and men against each other; whose state, because not restrained by any common power, . . . is to be accounted for the state of nature; which is the state of war.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Man and Citizen

“Where shall I turn, what shall I do? are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Man and Citizen

“Where shall I turn, what shall I do?' are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Man and Citizen