Quotes by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their f >>

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trampl >>

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men >>

Quotations about Wealth

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! wha >>

For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their >>

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is >>

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe