Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes, at the other extreme, warned that without laws, we get the “state of nature.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026
"It's like if the Manhattan Project announced the nuclear bomb within a cute little Calvin and Hobbes cartoon."
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
The founders of these micronations — in the 2000s quite a few dot-com tycoons — were usually men of means, steeped in Ayn Rand and Thomas Hobbes.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025
In the seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes pegged laughter as the companion of scorn.
From Salon • Nov. 18, 2024
“Ooh, looks like we’ve got ourselves a classic Hobbes versus Rousseau philosophical quandary.”
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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