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 War
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 Poetry
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. -Percy Bysshe Shelley Imagination
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. -Percy Bysshe Shelley Beauty
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 Beauty
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. -Percy Bysshe Shelley Society
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 Peace
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. -Percy Bysshe Shelley Sad
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. -Percy Bysshe Shelley Food
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 Government
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. -Percy Bysshe Shelley Death
