imp3ratrix: (Come not between a dragon and his wrath)
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau. ([personal profile] imp3ratrix) wrote2010-02-01 05:35 pm

Words From The Wise

Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.



~ Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan
; Chapter 13

[identity profile] scubascissors.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember reading the leviathan my first year of college and being slightly confused, but thoroughly captivated with the whole field of philosophy, because it seemed so different from my own. It probably isn't, but I thought it was then, at least.