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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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whatsoever, if but a man.<br />

‘Leviathan’ (1651) pt. 1, ch. 4<br />

<strong>The</strong> power <strong>of</strong> a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent<br />

good; and is either original or instrumental.<br />

‘Leviathan’ (1651) pt. 1, ch. 10<br />

I put for a general inclination <strong>of</strong> all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire <strong>of</strong> power after<br />

power, that ceaseth only in death.<br />

‘Leviathan’ (1651) pt. 1, ch. 11<br />

<strong>The</strong>y that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet<br />

heresy signifies no more than private opinion.<br />

‘Leviathan’ (1651) pt. 1, ch. 11<br />

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that<br />

condition which is called war; and such a war as is <strong>of</strong> every man against every man.<br />

‘Leviathan’ (1651) pt. 1, ch. 13<br />

For as the nature <strong>of</strong> foul weather, lieth not in a shower or two <strong>of</strong> rain; but in an inclination<br />

thereto <strong>of</strong> many days together: so the nature <strong>of</strong> war consisteth not in actual fighting, but in the<br />

known disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary.<br />

‘Leviathan’ (1651) pt. 1, ch. 13<br />

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst <strong>of</strong> all, continual fear and danger <strong>of</strong> violent<br />

death; and the life <strong>of</strong> man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.<br />

‘Leviathan’ (1651) pt. 1, ch. 13<br />

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.<br />

‘Leviathan’ (1651) pt. 1, ch. 13<br />

<strong>The</strong>y that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with<br />

aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call<br />

it anarchy, which signifies the want <strong>of</strong> government; and yet I think no man believes, that want <strong>of</strong><br />

government, is any new kind <strong>of</strong> government.<br />

‘Leviathan’ (1651) pt. 2, ch. 19<br />

Whereas some have attributed the dominion [<strong>of</strong> the family] to the man only, as being <strong>of</strong> the<br />

more excellent Sex; they misreckon in it. For there is not always that difference <strong>of</strong> strength, or<br />

prudence between the man and the woman, as that the right can be determined without War.<br />

‘Leviathan’ (1651) pt. 2, ch. 20<br />

For it is with the mysteries <strong>of</strong> our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which<br />

swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without<br />

effect.<br />

‘Leviathan’ (1651) pt. 3, ch. 32<br />

<strong>The</strong> Papacy is not other than the Ghost <strong>of</strong> the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon<br />

the grave there<strong>of</strong>.<br />

‘Leviathan’ (1651) pt. 4, ch. 47<br />

<strong>The</strong> praise <strong>of</strong> ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence <strong>of</strong> the dead, but from the

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