Men Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Can man be free if woman be a slave?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed…

— 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,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“We rest; A dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; One wandering thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley