Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.