Jonathan Swift

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#nature

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#consent #definition #governed #reason #slavery

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#critics #age

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#puns #humor

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#consciousness #elixir-of-life #life #mornings #life

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#inspirational #life #satire #humor

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#science #design

Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#pride #inspirational

Words are the clothing of our thoughts. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#inspirational

But he may please to consider, that the caprices of womankind are not limited by any climate or nation; and that they are much more uniform than can be easily imagined. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#imagination