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William Godwin Quotes

«The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.»
«Justice is the sum of all moral duty.»
Author: William Godwin | Keywords: moral duty
«Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius . . . he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.»
Author: William Godwin | Keywords: adversary, scarcely
«What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.»
«Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.»
Author: William Godwin | Keywords: strengthen
«Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.»
Author: William Godwin | Keywords: eagerness, educate
«If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.»
«Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.»
Author: William Godwin | Keywords: sense an
«A soldier is a man whose business it is to kill those who never offended him, and who are the innocent martyrs of other men's iniquities. Whatever may become of the abstract question of the justifiableness of war, it seems impossible that the soldier should not be a depraved and unnatural thing.»
«God himself has no right to be a tyrant.»

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