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All society therefore is either for gain, or for glory;

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“All society therefore is either for gain, or for glory;”

Thomas Hobbes

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Hobbes provocatively explains association through self-interest and reputation, setting up his argument about fear, power and the political conditions needed for lasting society.

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Thomas Hobbes, De Cive, Chapter I, represented in The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, Project Gutenberg #73906. 'All society therefore is either for gain, or for glory' appears inside Hobbes's seventeenth-century argument from appetite, glory and self-interest; it is political anthropology/philosophy, not a modern empirical law of all relationships.

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