The best Quotes by William Godwin

The best Quotes by William Godwin

William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Patience & Endurance

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

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

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You don't build a great castle just all at once.

Baker Mayfield

Patience & Endurance

Castle: "Do I look like a killer to you?"
Beckett: "Yes. You kill my patience."

Kate Beckett in Castle

Patience & Endurance

Don't exploit an advantage just because it emerges; wait until the optimal moment, then strike.

Ciri in The Witcher - III - Wild Hunt

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Patience & Endurance Advantages & Disadvantages

Patience is what separates good hunters from dead ones.

Camille, the Steel Shadow in League of Legends

Patience & Endurance Hunting

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

Patience & Endurance

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

Simon Cowell

Patience & Endurance

Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.

Hrithik Roshan

Patience & Endurance

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Phillips Brooks

Understanding Patience & Endurance

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Patience & Endurance

Patience is the art of hoping.

Luc de Clapiers

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Patience & Endurance

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Peter Marshall

Patience & Endurance

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Strength Patience & Endurance

One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.

Ricky Williams

Life Patience & Endurance

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Power Revolution

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

Heather Brewer in Vladimir Tod - Ninth Grade Slays

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Revolution History

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

George Orwell in 1984

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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Revolution Motivation Good & Evil

To overthrow oppression has been sanctioned by humanity and is the highest aspiration of every free man.

Nelson Mandela

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Human Rights Freedom Revolution

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King

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Revolution Opinions

You can destroy wood and brick, but you can't destroy a movement.

Angie Thomas in The Hate U Give

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The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.

Mohammed Morsi

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Revolution 2011 Egypt Saudi Arabia Syria

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

Malala Yousafzai

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Revolution Silence

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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Revolution History

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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Freedom Revolution

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

Walt Whitman

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Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

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Reason & Sanity Imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein

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Knowledge Imagination Criminal Minds

Gaston: "How can you read this, there's no pictures?"
Belle: "Well, some people use their imagination."

Belle in Beauty and the Beast

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Imagination Reading

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only once."

George R. R. Martin in A Song of Ice and Fire - A Dance with Dragons

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Imagination Reading

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

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Imagination Intelligence

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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Doors are for people with no imagination.

Derek Landy in Skulduggery Pleasant - Der Gentleman mit der Feuerhand

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When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

Paul Auster in The Brooklyn Follies

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It's like we talked about, you control this world. Let the pain go, let the hurt go, let the guilt go. What you are imagining right now, that world you control. That place can be as real as any pain.

Dr. Vera Gorski in Sucker Punch

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Haven't Luke Skywalker and Santa Claus affected your lives more than most real people in this room? I mean, whether Jesus is real or not, he's had a bigger impact on the world than any of us have. And the same could be said of Bugs Bunny... and Superman and Harry Potter. They've changed my life, changed the way I act on the Earth. Doesn't that make them kind of real?

Kyle Broflovski in South Park - Season 11 Episode 12

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Luke Skywalker Superman Bugs Bunny Imagination Santa Claus

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Joanne K. Rowling

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Imagination Magic

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

John Lennon

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Imagination Myths & Legends

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

James Comey

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