William Godwin Quotes

• The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

  William Godwin

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• Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

  William Godwin

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• There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

  William Godwin

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• What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

  William Godwin

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• Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

  William Godwin

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• Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius… he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

  William Godwin

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• In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

  William Godwin

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• 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

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• Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

  William Godwin

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• 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.

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• The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

  William Godwin

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• The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

  William Godwin

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• 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.

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• We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

  William Godwin

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• The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

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• What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

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• God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

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• 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.

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William Godwin (38)

Birth:	3rd March, 1756
Death:	7th April, 1836
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Journalist, Novelist, Philosopher

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