But the most frequent reason why men desire to hurt each other, proceedeth from this, that one man's will is contrary to another's will, or his action to another's action, or his words to another's words; and this is called CONTROVERSY.
— Thomas Hobbes Early Modern

Leviathan, social contract

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De Corpore Politico, Part I, Chapter III

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1640

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