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Quote from Percy Bysshe Shelley,


"Conformity and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men and of the human frame,
A mechanized automaton."

[Ed. Note: "Conformity" not in original quote. Seehttp://libertytree.ca/quotes/Percy.Shelley.Quote.B894]


By:

Percy Bysshe Shelley (more quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley or books by/about Percy Bysshe Shelley)


(1792-1822) British poet

Source:

Queen Mab, 1813
see http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Percy.Shelley.Quote.B894 for full quote

Categories:

Collectivist, Conformity, Disobedience, Free Thought, Freedom, Individualism, Liberty, Slavery, Subservience, Truth, Virtue, Wisdom

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