William Godwin Quote

What…can be more shameless than for society to make an example of those whom she has goaded to the breach of order, instead of amending her own institutions which, by straining order into tyranny, produced the mischief?

On the penal laws

An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Political Justice (1793) bk. 7, ch. 3


What…can be more shameless than for society to make an example of those whom she has goaded to the breach of order, instead of amending her own...

What…can be more shameless than for society to make an example of those whom she has goaded to the breach of order, instead of amending her own...

What…can be more shameless than for society to make an example of those whom she has goaded to the breach of order, instead of amending her own...

What…can be more shameless than for society to make an example of those whom she has goaded to the breach of order, instead of amending her own...