This famous quote which captures the essence of the book and philosophy is ''The state of men without civil society (which state we may properly call the state of nature) is nothing else but a mere war of all against all'- famously stated by Hobbes, writing in the tumultuous era of civil war era England, strikes back against the freedom of man and his violent selfish ways. The book wants to establish peace, and the establishment of peace requires an iron fist of law that will upheld by all citizens, because man himself cannot be trusted in his natural state, and to head further as a society there needs to be government that has a monopoly of violence that upholds its value as something being greater than an untrustworthy individual, and that is the concoction of the state.
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