"During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called War; and such a war, as is of every man, against every man."

"Fear and I were born twins."

"The universe is corporeal; all that is real is material, and what is not material is not real."

"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 Natural, for whose prote…"

"The value of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is, so much as would be given for the use of his power."