Quotation by Thomas Hobbes

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They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), British philosopher. Leviathan, part 2, ch. 19 (1651).

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