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“El que me coacciona pretende hacerlo porque sus razón son fuertes; pero realmente lo hace porque son débiles.”

William Godwin

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“En verdad, no hay tiempo más perdido que el que se gasta leyendo compendios.”

William Godwin

Fuente: Citado en Monlau, Pedro Felipe. Libro de los libros: ó, Ramillete de máximas, pensamientos y dichos sentenciosos agudos ó memorables. 3ª Edición. Editorial La Illustracíon, 1847. p. 16.

“Terrible mal es la anarquía; el despotismo lo es mayor. La anarquía ha matado a centenares de hombres; el despotismo ha sacrificado millones y millones, y por eso mismo, no ha hecho más que perpetuar la ignorancia, el vicio, la miseria. La anarquía es un mal efímero, y el despotismo es poco menos que inmortal. Evidentemente, terrible prueba es para un pueblo dar rienda suelta a sus pasiones todas, hasta que la vista de sus estragos de nuevas fuerzas a la razón, pero este remedio es a menudo más eficaz que terrible.”

William Godwin

Fuente: Citado en Pradas, José García ¿Revolución proletaria?: ensayo anarquista. Ediciones Cuadernos Internacionales, 1951. p. 23.

“El gobierno pretendía suprimir la injusticia, pero su efecto ha sido encarnarla y perpetuarla.”

William Godwin

Resumen de Principios 2.7.
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Modern Morals and Manners. Vol. 1.
Original: «Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it».

“El gobierno pretendía suprimir la injusticia, pero ofreció nuevas ocasiones y tentaciones para la comisión de la misma.”

William Godwin

Resumen de Principios 2.4.
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Modern Morals and Manners. Vol. 1.
Original: «Government was intended to suppress injustice, but it offers new occasions and temptations for the commission of it».

“Tuvo un efecto desafortunado sobre el entendimiento y el temperamento humanos, que un hombre se viera obligado en su más grave investigación de un argumento, a considerar, no lo que es verdad, sino lo que es conveniente.”

William Godwin

Original: «It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient».
Fuente: Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet: Including Memoirs of His Near Friend and Kinsman, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster: with Sketches of the Manners, Opinions, Arts and Literature of England in the Fourteenth Century, Volumen 1. Autor William Godwin Editor T. Davison, 1803. p. 370.

William Godwin: Frases en inglés

“Truth is powerful, and, if not instantly, at least by slow degrees, may make good her possession. Gleams of good sense may penetrate through the thickest clouds of error. But we are supposing in the present case that truth is the object of the preceptor. Upon that assumption it would be strange indeed, if he were not able to triumph over corruption and sophistry, with the advantage of being continually at hand, of watching every change and symptom as they may arise, and more especially with the advantage of real voice, of accommodated eloquence, and of living sympathies, over a dead letter. These advantages are sufficient; and, as the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking; open to him new mines of science and new incentives to virtue; and perhaps, by a blended and compound effect, produce in him an improvement which was out of the limits of his lessons, and raise him to heights the preceptor never knew.”

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William Godwin

The Enquirer : Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature (1797), Essay XV : Of Choice In Reading, p. 130, (1823 edition)

“Nothing can be of more importance than to separate prejudice and mistake on the one hand from reason and demonstration on the other.”

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William Godwin

Book III, Ch.1
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)

“Democracy is a system of government according to which every member of society is considered as a man and nothing more.”

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William Godwin

Book V, Chapter 13, "General Features of Democracy"

Massacre is the too possible attendant upon revolution , and massacre is perhaps the most hateful scene, alllowing for its omentary duration, that any imagination can suggest, The fearful, hopeless, expectation of the defeated, and the blood-hound fury of their conquerors, is a complication of mischief that all which has been told of internal regions can scarcely surpass. The cold-blooded massacres that are perpetrated under the naem of criminal justice fall short of these in some of their most frightful aggravations. The ministers and instruments of law have by perform, and often bear their parts in the most shocking enormities without being sensible to the passions allied murders with the rudeness of an insulting triumph ; and, as the conduct themselves , in a certain sort, by known principles of injustice, the evil we have reason to apprehend has its limits. But the instruments of massacre are discharged from every restraint.

Book VIII, Ch.
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)