| Civil liberty means the liberty of a citizen, not the abstract liberty of an individual in a state of nature. |
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| He led me to a room where dozens of men were in a state of nature and invited me to change into my judo costume. |
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| This, according to environmental primitivism, is the perfect, aboriginal state of nature. |
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| Rousseau argued that reason had led man out of his innocent state of nature into decadence. |
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| I don't believe the Rousseau argument that if you leave everything in a state of nature, then everything will be peaceful and loving. |
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| Civilisation is incompatible with the state of nature, while the law of nature contributes to the progress of the human race. |
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| Humans have not emerged from the state of nature but have explored an extreme niche of that nature. |
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| Fourier's premise was that people could live harmoniously in a state of nature, free of government intervention. |
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| My theory is that my great grandparents were walking happily hand-in-hand in Cannaught Place, she clad in hot pants and he completely in a state of nature. |
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| If people in a state of nature would find it rational to agree to behave according to particular rules, this would strengthen the statement. |
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| It is hardly surprising in these circumstances that Kosovo closely resembles the state of nature. |
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| In the present state of nature, with many natural checks and balances removed, it is necessary that this should be so. |
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| Of interest to CMS were the reports provided by African representatives on the state of nature conservation in their countries. |
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| Thus there still may be a proportion of home schoolers who fit the stereotype of the isolationist hoping to keep children in the state of nature. |
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| Because laws represent the restraints of civil freedom, they represent the leap made from humans in the state of nature into civil society. |
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| It's true that no one wants to totally and completely unchain Wall Street so that bankers can do absolutely whatever they want in a lawless state of nature. |
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| In essence, the argument is that people in a theoretical state of nature form a government for their mutual benefit by means of a social contract whereby they agree to take on certain rights and responsibilities. |
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| Natural man is only taken out of the state of nature when the inequality associated with private property is established. |
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| The most famous natural right formulation comes from John Locke in his Second Treatise, when he introduces the state of nature. |
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| He was unable to decide between the comparative advantages of the savage state of nature and the most highly cultivated society. |
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| Man invented tools, discovered fire, and in short, began to emerge from the state of nature. |
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| He believed that society was formed from a state of nature to protect people from the state of war between mankind that exists otherwise. |
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| Individuals in the state of nature were apolitical and asocial. |
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| Pufendorf disputed Hobbes's equation of a state of nature with war. |
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| Though the sovereign's edicts may well be arbitrary and tyrannical, Hobbes saw absolute government as the only alternative to the terrifying anarchy of a state of nature. |
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