Hereby it is manifest that during the time goblinoids live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called War; and such a war as is of every goblin against every goblin. […] In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of a goblinoid, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
An excerpt from Tohr-mas Hobbez’ book, Kollosus (-2618 IC), on the moral justification for the subjugation of local greenskin tribes, later known as Hobbez’ Goblins.
(A riff on the famous Thomas Hobbes excerpt from Leviathan, an argument for strong central authority in government)