William Godwin Quotes about Evil

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

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".

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

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

William Godwin Quotes about Evil

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