Hobbes and an inside tweet on Harper

So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire for power after power that ceaseth only in death.  And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight that he has already attained to or that he cannot be content with a moderate power, but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.

                                                                                           
                                                                Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

Source: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. A.P. Martinich (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002), p. 75 (Ch. XI.2).