"Man Is a Wolf to Man"
Hobbes supposed: if there were no government and no law, everyone would have a right to seize everything, and the result could only be "a war of all against all," in which no one is safe. It is precisely the fear of this terror that drives people to give up part of their freedom willingly, to covenant, and to obey a common sovereign together. With one cold premise, he for the first time grounded the state’s legitimacy in "the consent of the people" — even though the conclusion he reached was absolute monarchy.