A Quote by – Thomas Hobbes

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Author Name:

Thomas Hobbes

Born As:

Thomas Hobbes

Other Names:

Thomas Hobbes

Born:

5 Apr 1588

Died:

4 Dec 1679
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil — commonly referred to as Leviathan - 1651.

Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan book.                          
Bellum omnium contra omnes.

The Latin phrase is in De Cive - 'On the citizen' is a book by published in 1642, and  in 1647.                          
The description that Thomas Hobbes gives to human existence in the state of nature thought experiment that he conducts in De Cive, 1642 and Leviathan, 1651. The common modern English usage is a war of "each against all" where war is rare and terms such as "competition" or "struggle" are more common.

Charles Fourier (1st ed. 1915). "Each Against All". In Upton Sinclair. Cry for Justice: Anthology of Great Social Protest Literature.

Sometimes the phrase is used by Marx and Engels.