Book: Travels Lemuel Gulliver. Page 1

I asked you to notify me by letter when the party feuds and intrigues cease; judges will become enlightened and fair; solicitors - honest, moderate and acquire at least an ounce of common sense.

I said that we have a class of people, trained from youth art to prove with the help of long speeches that white - black and black - white respectively the money that they paid for it. This class holds in bondage all the people.

And very convincingly they proved to me that without a corruption of morals it is impossible to hold the Royal throne, because the positive, courageous, persevering character that is created in human virtue, is a constant hindrance in government activities.

In his opinion, anyone who is in one ear, or a single stalk of grass will be able to grow on the same field two, will have humanity and to his country a greater service than all the politicians put together.

And he asked me: isn't it better may be protected by the house of each of the citizens of his host with children and household than a half dozen randomly recruited on the street for a small wage scams that can obtain a hundred times more, cut the throat of protected persons?

Treason begins in the heart before it manifests itself in action.

Man, able to hurt even the one who did him good, inevitably sees enemies all other people from whom he never received any favours.

The highest mental gifts cannot substitute for moral virtues. There is nothing so dangerous as to entrust important positions such talented people. Error committed in ignorance a man full of good intentions, can always be fixed. But the activities of a person with vicious tendencies, endowed with ability to hide their vices with impunity to indulge them, is a great danger for the public good.

Lilliputians consider fraud a more serious crime than theft, and therefore only in rare cases, it is not punishable by death. With certain caution, vigilance, and a small dose of common sense, they argue, you can always protect their property from thief. But a clever fraud there is no protection.

Each nation is proud of the antiquity, beauty, and expressiveness of their language, referring with obvious contempt for the language of his neighbor.

The ambition of monarchs has no limits.

I was deeply surprised by what delusion keep the world corrupt hacks, attributing the greatest military feats cowards, wise counsel to fools, sincerity to flatterers, Roman valor - traitors, piety to atheists, truth to informers. I found out how many innocent and excellent men were sentenced to death or exile because of the machinations of powerful Ministers. How many villains were erected on high posts, was imbued with the confidence, power, honor and showered with material possessions. What a low opinion I had of human courage, wisdom and integrity, when I received truthful information about the springs and motives of great events and revolutions, and those little accidents that they owe their success.

... warped mind, perhaps worse than bestial stupidity.

No such absurdities, which would not have its defenders among philosophers.