Editing Bellum omnium contra omnes (section)

== Later uses ==
In his ''[[Notes on the State of Virginia]]'' (1785), [[Thomas Jefferson]] uses the phrase {{langx|la|label=none|bellum omnium in omnia}} ("war of all things against all things", assuming {{langx|la|label=none|omnium}} is intended to be neuter like {{langx|la|label=none|omnia}}) as he laments that the constitution of that state was twice at risk of being sacrificed to the nomination of a [[dictator]] after the manner of the [[Roman Republic]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Notes on the State of Virginia|author=Thomas Jefferson|author-link=Thomas Jefferson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FlEVAAAAYAAJ | publisher=Lilly and Wait | location=Boston| year=1832|page=[https://archive.org/details/notesonstatevir03jeffgoog/page/n144 <!-- quote="ad libitum into any other form of government for precedents to rule us by, for what oppression may not a precedent be found in this world of the bellum omnium in omnia?". --> 134]|isbn=9781548602185 }}</ref>

The phrase was sometimes used by [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]:
* In ''[[On the Jewish Question]]'' (1843–1844):
{{Quote|Religion has become the spirit of ''[[civil society]]'', of the sphere of egoism, of {{langx|la|label=none|bellum omnium contra omnes}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/ |title=On The Jewish Question - Works of Karl Marx 1844 |date= |publisher=[[Marxists Internet Archive]] |access-date=31 May 2016}}</ref>}}
* In ''[[Grundrisse|Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy]]'' (1857–1858):
{{quote|One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation this war of all against all produces a general negation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch03.htm |title=Grundrisse: Notebook I – The Chapter on Money|author=|date= |publisher=Marxists Internet Archive |access-date=31 May 2016}}</ref>}}
:The English translation eliminates the Latin phrase used in the original German.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://emanzipationoderbarbarei.blogsport.de/studium/dokumente/karl-marx-grundrisse-der-kritik-der-politischen-akonomie/entstehung-und-wesen-des-geldes/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423014410/http://emanzipationoderbarbarei.blogsport.de/studium/dokumente/karl-marx-grundrisse-der-kritik-der-politischen-akonomie/entstehung-und-wesen-des-geldes/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 23, 2014 |title=Entstehung und Wesen des Geldes. Grundrisse der Kritik der politischen Ökonomie|author=|date= |publisher=emanzipationoderbarbarei.blogsport.de/studium/dokumente/karl-marx-grundrisse-der-kritik-der-politischen-akonomie/entstehung-und-wesen-des-geldes/|access-date=12 December 2016|language=de}}</ref>
* In a letter from Marx to Engels (18 June 1862):
{{quote|It is remarkable how [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]] rediscovers, among the beasts and plants, the society of England with its division of labour, competition, opening up of new markets, 'inventions' and [[Thomas Robert Malthus|Malthusian]] 'struggle for existence'. It is Hobbes' {{langx|la|label=none|bellum omnium contra omnes}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1862/letters/62_06_18.htm |title=Marx-Engels Correspondence 1862|author=|date= |publisher=Marxists Internet Archive |accessdate=4 March 2012}}</ref>}}
* In a letter to [[Pyotr Lavrov]] (London, 12–17 November 1875), Engels is expressed clearly against any attempt to legitimize the trend anthropomorphizing human nature to the distorted view of natural selection:
{{Quote|The whole Darwinists teaching of the struggle for existence is simply a transference from society to living nature of Hobbes's doctrine of {{langx|la|label=none|bellum omnium contra omnes}} and of the bourgeois-economic doctrine of competition together with Malthus's theory of population. When this conjurer's trick has been performed..., the same theories are transferred back again from organic nature into history and it is now claimed that their validity as eternal laws of human society has been proved.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/letters/75_11_17-ab.htm |title=Engels to Pyotr Lavrov In London |author=Friedrich Engels |author-link=Friedrich Engels |others=Transcription/Markup: Brian Baggins|date= |work=Marx-Engels Correspondence 1875 |publisher=Marxists Internet Archive |access-date=20 June 2016}}</ref>}}
* It was also used by [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] in ''[[On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense]]'' (1873):
{{Quote|Insofar as the individual wants to preserve himself against other individuals, in a natural state of affairs he employs the intellect mostly for simulation alone. But because man, out of need and boredom, wants to exist socially, herd-fashion, he requires a peace pact and he endeavors to banish at least the very crudest {{langx|la|label=none|bellum omnium contra omnes}} from his world.<ref>[[Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)|Walter Kaufmann]]'s translation in {{cite book|title=The portable Nietzsche |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blfwSlxhjvAC | publisher=[[Penguin Books]] | location=[[City of Westminster]], London | year=1977 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=blfwSlxhjvAC&dq=%22Insofar+as+the+individual%22&pg=PT35 35] | isbn = 978-1-440-67419-8}}</ref>}}
* Max Stirner also used the term in his book "The One and his own". 
* Rudolf Steiner describes it with the term "war of all against all" a future epoch, when the human race will be submitted to a powerful selfishness.{{cn|date=October 2024}}