“Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: war
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Revenge is the naked idol of the
“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: age
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Government is an evil; it is only
“Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: good
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Fear not for the future, weep not
“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: future
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Change is certain. Peace is followed by
“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: change
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever
“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: poetry
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Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all
“Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: hope
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Change is certain. Peace is followed by
“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: men
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in
“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: music
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden
“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: beauty
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Government is an evil; it is only
“Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: men
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