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Quotation from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
“and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short”
Leviathan, Part I, Ch. XIII (1651 text (original spelling))
The culmination of Hobbes's account of life without a common power to keep people in awe.
Citation: "and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short" — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Part I, Ch. XIII (1651 text (original spelling)). (id leviathan-q9)
Portrait: Thomas Hobbes (copy after an original of c.1669–1670), John Michael Wright, Public domain.
