Quote of the Day (Percy Bysshe Shelley, on Power, ‘A Desolating Pestilence’)

“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.” —English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Queen Mab (1813), Part III