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Not who you're looking for? Others named William Godwin: English journalist, political philosopher and novelist · 1984 biography by Peter Marshall · British sports shooter (1912-2000) · politician
“Government was intended to suppress injustice, but it offers new occasions and temptations for the commission of it.”
“Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.”
“Men may one day feel that they are partakers of a common nature, and that true freedom and perfect equity, like food and air, are pregnant with benefit to every constitution.”
“If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.”
“To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation, is the sentiment of a barbarian; civilisation and science are calculated to explode so ferocious an idea. It was once universally admitted and approved; it is now necessarily upon the decline.”
“The proper method for hastening the decay of error is not by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.”
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