Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Judging
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Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?
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No man can be judge to his own cause.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.
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Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.
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