Full Idea
In a time of war…. there is continual fear, and danger of violent death, and the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Gist of Idea
In time of war the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short
Source
Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan [1651], 1.13)
Book Reference
Hobbes,Thomas: 'Leviathan', ed/tr. Macpherson,C.B. [Penguin 1981], p.186