#ThomasHobbes

“The most famously fearful man in England built philosophy's most fearless system — a politics deduced from human nature alone, with no divine right and no natural masters, and a chilling price tag attached.”

“Everything that exists — stones, thoughts, states — is matter in motion; and because human beings without a common power over them fall into a war of all against all, we build an artificial "mortal god," the state, to keep the peace.”