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Only Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his…
- It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight…
- It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.
- Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.
- GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far…
- 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…
- 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…
- Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
- Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
- I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and…
- Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make…
- In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common;…
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