Thursday, October 26, 2017

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

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