Quotes by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetabl >>

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -- he hath awakened fr >>

Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and >>

Quotations about Tyranny

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he >>

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. >>

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. >>

Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe