... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyAs belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyJesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyIt were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.
Percy Bysshe Shelley