Barbarians Quote by William Godwin

“Reformation of the world begins with reformation of self. We cannot hope to influence others in the direction of moral virtue unless we live…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical; but in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults, are unqualified…

— Edmund Burke

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

— Pierre Corneille

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a…

— William Blackstone

“The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to…

— Steven Pinker

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which…

— Marquis de Sade

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

— Thomas Jefferson

“I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however,…

— Hannah More

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book…

— George Orwell