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William Godwin Quotes
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. - William Godwin Quotes
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. - William Godwin Quotes
But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference. - William Godwin Quotes
Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man. - William Godwin Quotes
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. - William Godwin Quotes
God himself has no right to be a tyrant. - William Godwin Quotes
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. - William Godwin Quotes
He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. - William Godwin Quotes
He that loves reading has everything within his reach. - William Godwin Quotes
If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such. - William Godwin Quotes
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. - William Godwin Quotes
In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question. - William Godwin Quotes
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. - William Godwin Quotes
Justice is the sum of all moral duty. - William Godwin Quotes
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. - William Godwin Quotes
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. - William Godwin Quotes
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. - William Godwin Quotes
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. - William Godwin Quotes
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. - William Godwin Quotes
One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason. - William Godwin Quotes
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. - William Godwin Quotes
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. - William Godwin Quotes
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. - William Godwin Quotes
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. - William Godwin Quotes
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. - William Godwin Quotes
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. - William Godwin Quotes
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. - William Godwin Quotes
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. - William Godwin Quotes
The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years. - William Godwin Quotes
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. - William Godwin Quotes
Quotes Cloud
Above Care Conscience Danger Education Endless Evil
Forget Free From Government Individual Interference Into
Judgement Lead Mankind Mere Never Object Parent
Private Pupil Rather Reading Render Should Than
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