Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab (1813), Canto III.
Pollutes whate’er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame
A mechanized automaton.
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