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.
No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate t… - William Godwin
No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate t…
- William Godwin
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. - William Godwin
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
The wise man is satisfied with nothing. - William Godwin
The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
He that loves reading has everything within his reach. - William Godwin
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. - William Godwin
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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… - William Godwin
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…
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 … - William Godwin
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 …
Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind. - William Godwin
Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbec… - William Godwin
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbec…
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