Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Obedience

Quotes about: Obedience

• Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  New Relationship, Essence, Liberty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

• 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.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Genius, Pestilence

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

• Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Thinking, Reason, Obedience

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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