"Men
have no pleasure, (but on the contrary a great deale of griefe) in keeping
company, where there is no power able to over-awe them all." (page
205)
"Hereby
it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common Power to
keep them in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre, and
such a warre, as is of every man, against every man."
not just battle but time in which the will to (i.e., the
"known disposition to" 205) battle is known.
"...every
man is Enemy to every man;... men live without security, than what their
own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them.
In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the
fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no Culture of the earth, no
navigation,... no commodious building, no Knowledge of the face of the
Earth, no account of Time, no Arts, no Letters, no Society; and which is
worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the
life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short." (205)
"Desires
and other Passions of man, are in themselves no Sin.
No more are the Actions, that proceed from those Passions, till
they know a Law that forbids them: which till Lawes be made they cannot
know: nor can any Law be made, till they have agreed upon the Person that
shall make it." (206)
"...where
there were no common Power to feare; by the manner of life, which me that
have formerly lived under peacefull government, use to degenerate into a
civill Warre." (206)
"To
this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that
nothing can be Unjust. The
notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice have no place.
Where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no
Injustice. Force and Fraud
are in warre, the two Cardinal virtues.
"And
thus much for the ill condition, which man by meer Nature is actually
placed in; though with a possibility to come out of it, consisting partly
in the Passions, partly in his Reason." (206)
