When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.