Hobbes and the Leviathan

‘the multitude so united in one person, is called a commonwealth. This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather, to speak more reverently, of that mortal god, to which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence’
the social contract of Hobbes - based upon an axiom of rational humanity - ‘people led by ‘a perpetuall and restlesse desire of Power after power’ - agreeing to empower a third party - the Sovereign