Thomas Hobbes, in Leviathan (published in 1651): in a state of nature, outside a political community, a state of anarchy exists and  human life  is 'nasty, brutish and short.'

I wouldn't want to claim any linkages between Hobbes and Harry's Place, the prominent pro-Israel anti-Islamist  site which I admire very much - although its comments section can be anarchic. I simply make use of that famous phrase, which appears so often in discussions of the philosopher and his work (but I did hear the philosopher Anthony Flew make the proud claim that he'd managed to write a book on Hobbes without once mentioning it.)

Here, I include a few nasty, brutish and short comments to do with me by some regular commenter's on 'Harry's Place,' such as this, by
  • 'Sleazy Peter Oborne' is about right.

  • Apologies for pointless profanity but feck Begg, Cage, Amnesty and the Quakers. If there turns out to be a hell, I hope they all burn in it for a long, long time...