William Godwin Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

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

  William Godwin

  Pregnancy, Revolution, Tyranny

• Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.

  William Godwin

  War, Character, Men

• Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

  William Godwin

  Passion, Revolution, Quiet

  William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.244

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