The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a man at which nations tremble. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Great changes cannot take place in the minds of generations of men without a corresponding change in their external symbols. There must… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
How nations and races of men are to be so governed as may be most conducive to the improvement and happiness of… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The admission of one man, either hereditarily or for life only, into the place of chief of a country, is an evidence… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
In infamy, it is wisely provided that he who stands highest in the ranks of society has the heaviest load to sustain. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Godwin on Fenelon and his Valet * Following is an excerpt from William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Book II, Chapter II: “Of Justice”:… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors of greatest… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list;… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
