Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so… — Quoted

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“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 · War

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

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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.

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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.

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