How did Hobbes view people and what was his ideal government?

Thomas Hobbes claimed that life in the state of nature would be the "war of all against all" and it would seem "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." As a result, humans were naturally prone to violence and antagonism. Consequently, Hobbes argued that there should be a "Leviathan" or an all-powerful dictator who could keep order and repress the violent tendencies of the human population.