The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.