Quotes by William Godwin

William Godwin

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

Evil

Government

Judgement

All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down – will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.

Forever

Lying

Writing

As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle.

Fall

Government

Teacher

By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person’s becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

Guilt

Men

Rights

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

Action

Benefits

Individual

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes – the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

Community

Government

Two

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Book

Education

Inspirational

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

Dishes

Flavor

Library

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

Admiration

Gains

Poverty

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

Collision

Ifs

Mind

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Action

Admiration

Allies

And Love

Animal

Assuming

Barbarians

Bears

Benefits

Book

Boys

Capacity

Cases

Children

Collision

Community

Consistency

Depression

Desire

Dishes

Earth

Education

Encouraging

Evil

Exercise

Fall

Flavor

Forever

Forget

Gains

Genius

Giving

Good And Evil

Government

Guilt

Happiness

Haste

Ifs

Imagination

Imagine

Importance

Independence

Individual

Inspirational

Invisible

Invisible Things

Judgement

Justice

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Quotes by William Godwin

William Godwin

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down – will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes – the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

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