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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
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.
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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.
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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
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If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive the right in certain cases to do as we list and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.
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Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
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Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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