Thomas Hobbes — "The greatest good is that which is most pleasant to us."

"Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion."

"To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place. Where there is no common po…"

"For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE, (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an Artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose prot…"

"To believe in God, is to believe that there is a God; that is to say, to assent to this proposition, that God is. Not that I understand what God is, but that I believe that he is; and therefore, that …"

"For it is not the bare words, but the scope of the speaker, that gives the words their true signification."