Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• 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

• The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Religious, War, Mean

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821). “Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. [reputed to have been given by the author to W. Francis. Wanting the title-leaf, dedication and part of the last leaf].”, p.145

• 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

• Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  War, Solitude, Thee

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1816). “Alastor, or The spirit of solitude, &c., ed. by H.B. Forman”, p.43

• Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Dog, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, with Other Poems”, Cambridge University Press

• Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, War, Passion

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1832). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.361

• But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  War, Past, Men

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

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