William Godwin Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

  William Godwin

  Government, Evil, Judgement

  "An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness".

• 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

• Power is not happiness.

  William Godwin

  Evil, Good And Evil

  William Godwin (1796). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.185

• Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

  William Godwin

  Evil, Operations, Term

  "Romantic Rationalist: A William Godwin Reader".

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