Thomas Hobbes

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.

The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no read more

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against
them.

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against
them.