Thomas Hobbes, (1588-1679) English philosopher, political theorist Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-5] of 5 Thomas Hobbes quotesThomas Hobbes QuotesThomas Hobbes A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself. For the right men have by Nature to protect themselves, when none else can protect them, can by no Covenant be relinquished. ... [The right] to defend ourselves [is the] summe of the Right of Nature.~ Thomas Hobbes Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.~ Thomas Hobbes Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.~ Thomas Hobbes A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.~ Thomas Hobbes They that approve a private opinion, call it an opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.~ Thomas Hobbes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print