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. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Liberty is one of the best of all sublunary advantages. I would willingly therefore communicate knowledge, without infringing, or with as little possible violence to, the volition and individual judgment of the person to be instructed. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 nature of man. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive the right in certain cases to do as we list and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius . . . he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Once annihilate the quackery of government, and the most homebred understanding might be strong enough to detect the artifices of the state juggler that would mislead him. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
God himself has no right to be a tyrant. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Study with desire is real activity without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The most desirable mode of education. . . . is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I know many men who are misanthropes, and profess to look down with disdain on their species. My creed is of an opposite character. All that we observe that is best and most excellent in the intellectual world, is man and it is easy to perceive in many cases, that the believer in mysteries does little more, than dress up his deity in the choicest of human attributes and qualifications. I have lived among, and I feel an ardent interest in and love for, my brethren of mankind. This sentiment, which I regard with complacency in my own breast, I would gladly cherish in others. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Trust the student in a certain degree with himself. Suffer him in some instances to select his own course of reading. There is danger that there should be something to studied and monotonous in the selection we should make for him. Suffer him to wander through the wilds of literature. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
He that loves reading has everything within his reach. - William Godwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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