We are told that the world is a great Bedlam, where the lunatics are the majority, and the few who are in their right senses are shut up by the rest.
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"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."
"I have been for some years past, working upon a great work, which I intend to publish, and it is a complete refutation of all that hath ever been written upon the subject of government."
"The difference between a madman and a sane man is that the madman is in a minority."
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
"Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion."
Anglo-Irish satirist and Dean of Dublin's St Patrick's Cathedral whose Gulliver's Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729) are the canonical English-language satires. Closely associated with Alexander Pope (Scriblerus Club poet and collaborator) and John Gay (Beggar's Opera author and satirical contemporary). For an intellectual contrast, see Daniel Defoe, English Whig journalist and Robinson Crusoe author (1660-1731) — Defoe's Crusoe (1719) celebrates Enlightenment self-reliance and the colonial-mercantile project; Swift's Gulliver (1726) systematically dismantles every form of human pretension Defoe celebrated. The cleanest Augustan Whig-vs-Tory literary pairing — optimistic-empirical vs misanthropic-satirical.
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