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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. ↗

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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

#general #good #happiness #humanity #justice

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. ↗

— William Godwin

#everything #evil #sense #some #term

God himself has no right to be a tyrant. ↗

— William Godwin

#himself #right #tyrant

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. ↗

— William Godwin

#artillery #civil #civil liberty #consequence #follows

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. ↗

— William Godwin

#creature #ended #him #himself #his

Character develops itself in the stream of life. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#develops #itself #life #stream

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#ago #answered #ignorant #men #questions

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. ↗