Full Idea
We call good and evil the things that please and displease us; and so we call goodness and badness, the qualities of powers whereby they do it.
Gist of Idea
Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them
Source
Thomas Hobbes (The Elements of Law [1640], I.7.3), quoted by Richard Tuck - Hobbes Ch.2
Book Reference
Tuck,Richard: 'Hobbes: a very short introduction' [OUP 2002], p.62
A Reaction
It is pointed out by Tuck that this is just like his treatment of colour terms (values as secondary qualities). I would have thought it was obvious that I could say 'x pleases me, although I disapprove of it' (e.g. black humour).