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

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

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

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

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

  • Born: August 4, 1792
  • Died: July 8, 1822
  • Occupation: Poet
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