When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. Percy Bysshe Shelley Read Quote
War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade. Percy Bysshe Shelley Read Quote
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. Percy Bysshe Shelley Read Quote
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. Percy Bysshe Shelley Read Quote
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. Percy Bysshe Shelley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Percy Bysshe Shelley Read Quote
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Percy Bysshe Shelley Read Quote
