Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Peace

Quotes about: Peace

• War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, War, Games

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions

• 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 to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, Brother, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

• Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Peace, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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