William Godwin Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

  William Godwin

  Men, Principles, Done

  William Godwin (1793). “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness”, p.597

• Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

  William Godwin

  Benefits, Action, Individual

  William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness: By William Godwin”, p.156

• He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

  William Godwin

  Men, Evil, Liberty

  William Godwin, Kay Codell Carter (1971). “Enquiry concerning political justice: with selections from Godwin's other writings”, Clarendon Press

• Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

  William Godwin

  Justice, Moral, Duty

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