Identify the thinker

Question 1

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other things for his study

Answer 1

MACHIAVELLI: The Prince

Question 2

Cruelty and Clemency

Answer 2

MACHIAVELLI: The Prince

Question 3

Nature has made men so equal in the faculties of the body and mind

Answer 3

HOBBES: The leviathan

Question 4

Equality among men that that of strength. For prudence is but experience

Answer 4

HOBBES: The leviathan

Question 5

For every man looks that his companion should value him at the same rate he sets upon himself

Answer 5

HOBBES: The leviathan

Question 6

The nature of war consists not in actual fighting but in the known disposition thereto

Answer 6

HOBBES: The leviathan

Question 7

Nothing can be unjust

Answer 7

HOBBES: The leviathan

Question 8

Liberty each man has to use his own power, is the right of nature

Answer 8

HOBBES: The leviathan

Question 9

Rights of the sovereign

Answer 9

HOBBES: The leviathan

Question 10

Every private man is judge of good and evil actions

Answer 10

HOBBES: The leviathan

Question 11

State all men are naturally in is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit

Answer 11

LOCKE: Two Treatises of Government

Question 12

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will of man

Answer 12

LOCKE: Two Treatises of Government

Question 13

The earth and all that is therein is given to men for the support and comfort of their being

Answer 13

LOCKE: Two Treatises of Government

Question 14

The great end of men’s entering into society being the enjoyment of their properties in peace and safety

Answer 14

LOCKE: Two Treatises of Government

Question 15

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains

Answer 15

ROUSSEAU: The Social Contract and the Origin of Inequality Among Men

Question 16

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right and obedience into duty

Answer 16

ROUSSEAU: The Social Contract and the Origin of Inequality Among Men

Question 17

War then is a relation, not between man and man, but between State and State

Answer 17

ROUSSEAU: The Social Contract and the Origin of Inequality Among Men

Question 18

Sovereignty for the same reason as makes it inalienable is indivisible

Answer 18

ROUSSEAU: The Social Contract and the Origin of Inequality Among Men

Question 19

Man’s power was regarded as necessary, but also as highly dangerous

Answer 19

JS MILL: On Utilitarianism, On Liberty,

Question 20

Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority is still vulgarly held indeed, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities

Answer 20

JS MILL: On Utilitarianism, On Liberty,

Question 21

Liberty as a principle, has no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion

Answer 21

JS MILL: On Utilitarianism, On Liberty,

Question 22

Greatest principle of happiness

Answer 22

JS MILL: On Utilitarianism, On Liberty,