Thomas Hobbes Leviathan Man Solitary Poor Quote T-Shirt

Have you ever wondered what society would look like in the state of nature -- i.e., without a social contract? Let your 17th century philosophical side shine with this tee featuring English philosopher Thomas Hobbes's infamous quote from Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civil (1651). Quotation says it all about humankind in the state of nature: "In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."