4 Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes on Rights

Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes on rights

9. GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.

13. A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

104. What is Freedom? - ye can tell That which slavery is, too well - For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.

204. You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights.