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If there be such a thing as t...

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

William Godwin 118 quotes

There is nothing that human i...

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.

William Godwin 118 quotes

There is scarcely an instant ...

There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How ought we to watch over our thoughts, that we may not so much as imagine any enormity!

William Godwin 118 quotes

The mind of a child is no les...

The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters.

William Godwin 118 quotes

Revolution is engendered by a...

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.

William Godwin 118 quotes

By right, as the word is empl...

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.

William Godwin 118 quotes

Perfectibility is one of the ...

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

William Godwin 118 quotes

I shall attempt to prove two ...

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

William Godwin 118 quotes

If ever there was a book calc...

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

William Godwin 118 quotes

There is no sphere in which a...

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

William Godwin 118 quotes

Government can have no more t...

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.

William Godwin 118 quotes

If admiration were not genera...

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.

William Godwin 118 quotes

A celebrated north country ap...

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

William Godwin 118 quotes

It is absurd to expect the in...

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.

William Godwin 118 quotes

No maxim can be more pernicio...

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

William Godwin 118 quotes

Books are the depositary of e...

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

William Godwin 118 quotes

The subtleties of mathematics...

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

William Godwin 118 quotes

The real or supposed rights o...

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. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.

William Godwin 118 quotes

Above all we should not forge...

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

William Godwin 118 quotes

The virtue of a human being i...

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

William Godwin 118 quotes

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