All William Godwin Quotes
- But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference. Care
- There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. Actually Witness
- 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… All
- What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? Child
- Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. Passion
- Power is not happiness. Evil
- Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. All
- Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. Assumes
- God himself has no right to be a tyrant. Funny
- It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. Child
- What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name. Doe
- The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. Applaud
- If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. Collision
- Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species. Characteristics
- 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… Admiration
- 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… Act
- The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force,… Brute
- In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question. Cases
- There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. Consequence
- We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. Atom