Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

• Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Power, Pestilence

• It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Power, Race, Vegetables

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.303, JHU Press

• Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Power, Dust

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.10

• The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Power, Shadow, Unseen

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.73, JHU Press

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