50 ordspråk av William Godwin
William Godwin
 If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. |
| In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question. |
| It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose. |
| Justice is the sum of all moral duty. |
| Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius . . . he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. |
| Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. |
| 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. |
| Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. |
| Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. |
| 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. |
| Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence. Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. |
| Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. |
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