William Godwin Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

  William Godwin

  Children, Parent, Sentimental

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.274

• As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle.

  William Godwin

  Teacher, Fall, Government

  William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.49

• What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

  William Godwin

  Children, Parent, Sound

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.276

• But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

  William Godwin

  Parent, Care, Youth

  William Godwin (1823). “The Enquirer”, p.60

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