The above statement sounds good to everyone, however, if we think that, not only you have all those mentioned liberties but all the individuals will be entitled to those liberties. If you are not powerful others may confiscate your property and might punish you without any reason or inflict harm upon you.

So does it sounds good now? Obviously not; Thomas Hobbes believe that human in law of nature is cruel and selfish he/she will do anything for his/her personal gain. If there isn’t any common authority, every individual will be in war with one another. So without government there would be unrest and chaos in the society. There would be no proof of who owns what? And what belongs to whom? Thomas Hobbes writes in his book leviathan (1651) that, there should be very strong centralized government to prevent the chaos and unrest in the society. The word leviathan is adopted from Old Testament, which is a Hebrew word means, sea monster. He believed that, in order to control the people in society, government should be like a sea monster. According to Hobbes if people needs safety and security from government they have to sacrifices some of their liberties. This agreement between government and people is refer to as social contract.     

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