Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Power, like a desolating pestilence, 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.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) British poetSource: Queen Mab [1813], pt. III