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" Where there is no common power, there is no law : where no law, no injustice. "
The Science-history of the Universe - Page 54
by Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909
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Penology, Justice and Liberty: Are You a Man Or a Mouse?

James C. McEleney, Barbara Lavin McEleney - 2005 - 164 pages
...consequent: that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no injustice. (Hobbes, (1651) 1960:83) It is clear that this is an argument proposing and legitimizing a political...
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The Squashed Philosophers

Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...this war of every man against every man 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 war, the two cardinal virtues. But the passions that incline men to peace are:...
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Global Politics as If People Mattered

Mary Ann Tétreault, Ronnie D. Lipschutz - 2005 - 246 pages
...consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law; where no law, no injustice."30 There are two key elements in the Hobbesian position. One is that in a situation of total...
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Central Works of Philosophy: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

John Shand - 2005 - 250 pages
...In the condition of the state of nature, Hobbes goes on to claim, there is no justice or injustice: "Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues" (L: 103; EW III: 115). Obviously life in such...
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Minorities Within Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity

Avigail Eisenberg, Jeff Spinner-Halev - 2005 - 412 pages
...set me thinking about justice, peace and religious toleration some years back. "Where there is not common Power, there is no Law: where no Law, no Injustice . . . Justice, and Injustice . . . are Qualities, that relate to men in Society, not in Solitude. It is consequent also to the same condition,...
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Leviathan, Parts I and II

Thomas Hobbes - 2005 - 404 pages
...notions of right and nothing is wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place. Where there is unjust. no common power, there is no law; where no law, no injustice. 1 Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. Justice and injustice are none of the faculties...
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The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know

Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
...there does not follow from it that misery which accompanies the liberty of particular men. have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law; where no law, no injustice. Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. Justice and injustice are none of the faculties...
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Liberty: God's Gift to Humanity

Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 pages
...nature. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have there [in the state of nature] no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law; where no law, no injustice. Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. Justice and injustice are none of the faculties...
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Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature

Brian C. Lockey - 2006 - 204 pages
...simply did not and could not exist: "The notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice have there 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 Cardinall vertues." 11 In Hobbes' perpetual war, every nation...
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Collective Decisions and Voting: The Potential for Public Choice

Nicolaus Tideman - 2006 - 358 pages
...consequent; that nothing can be Unjust. The notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice have there 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 Cardinall virtues ... It is consequent also to the same condition...
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