William Godwin Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• 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".

• 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

  Love, Happiness, Justice

  William Godwin (1793). “An enquiry concerning political justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness”, p.417

• A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

  William Godwin

  Country, Ninety Nine, Atheism

  William Godwin (1890). “Godwin's "Political Justice.": A Reprint of the Essay on "Property," from the Original Edition”

• I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

  William Godwin

  Determination, Two, Decision

  William Godwin (2015). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence On Morals And Happiness”, p.78, Penguin UK

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