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Jonathan Swith

Gulliver's Travels

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  • bakhtiyarhar citeretfor 5 år siden
    He believed, very simply, that every problem can be solved by honest, sensible people, and that the political life of a country must have no secrets and must be open for all to see and understand. Of course, we know that this is impossible, so perhaps his opinion of us is not worth considering
  • bakhtiyarhar citeretfor 5 år siden
    Or there may be a difference of opinion between two countries: for example, whether uniforms should be black, white, red or grey. Sometimes we fight because the enemy’s too strong, sometimes because he isn’t strong enough. Sometimes our neighbours want the things we have, or have the things we want, so we both fight until they take ours or give us theirs.
  • bakhtiyarhar citeretfor 5 år siden
    ‘No!’ he cried in horror. ‘Don’t tell me! I don’t want to know how to murder people like that. I would rather give half my country away than know the secret of this powder. How can a tiny creature like you have such inhuman, cruel ideas? Never speak to me of this again!’
  • bakhtiyarhar citeretfor 5 år siden
    ‘And why,’ he went on, ‘are you so often at war? Either you enjoy fighting, or you have very difficult neighbours! Why do you need an army at all? You would not be afraid of any other country, if you were peaceful people. And in the last hundred years you’ve done nothing but rob, fight, and murder! Your recent history shows the very worst effects of cruelty, jealousy, dishonesty, and madness!’
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