Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
英国政治家、哲学家
托马斯·霍布斯(Thomas Hobbes,1588年4月5日-1679年12月4日)英国政治家、哲学家。生于英国威尔特省一牧师家庭。早年就学于牛津大学,后做过贵族家庭教师,游历欧洲大陆。他创立了机械唯物主义的完整体系,指出宇宙是所有机械地运动着的广延物体的总和。他提出“自然状态”和国家起源说,指出国家是人们为了遵守“自然法”而订立契约所形成的,是一部人造的机器人,反对君权神授,主张君主专制。他把罗马教皇比作魔王,僧侣比作群鬼,但主张利用“国教”来管束人民,维护“秩序”。