Percy Bysshe Shelley Quote

Quote from Percy Bysshe Shelley,

"Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame,
A mechanized automaton."

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], pt. III
Categories:	Collectivist, Conformity, Disobedience, Free Thought, Freedom, Individualism, Liberty, Slavery, Subservience, Truth, Virtue, Wisdom
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Kindle Categories:	Power