Thomas Hobbes — "To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothin…"

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 power, there is no law: where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes — Thomas Hobbes Early Modern · Leviathan, social contract

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Leviathan, Part I, Chapter XIII

Date: 1651

War & Violence

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