It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income. - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. 1651
The emphasized sounds like Iago's role in Othello...
Nor should the context be lost in relation to the totality of the work or the time in which the author had lived...
And law was brought into the world for nothing else but to limit the natural liberty of particular men in such manner as they might not hurt, but assist one another, and join together against a common enemy. - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651.
i.e., nature, culminating in the conquering of human nature--cf. C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Where there is no common power, there is no law, no injustice. - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. 1651.
i.e., there is no justice in nature, it is wholly constructed by compact.
"But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good; and the object of his hate and aversion, evil; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable. For these words of good, evil, and contemptible are ever used with relation to the person that useth them: there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common rule of good and evil to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves; but from the person of the man, where there is no Commonwealth; or, in a Commonwealth, from the person that representeth it; or from an arbitrator or judge, whom men disagreeing shall by consent set up and make his sentence the rule thereof."
Ch. VI