Famous quotes containing the words jonathan swift, jonathan, swift and/or published:
“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“He won’t come after me. He won’t. I can’t explain it. He’d consider that rude.”
—Ted Tally, U.S. screenwriter, and Jonathan Demme. Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster)
“You must be wise, in order to sniff out and weigh these mighty books, and swift in the hunt and brave in the battle; then, by careful reading and frequent reflection, crack open the bone and suck out the substantific marrow.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“Our fear that Communism might some day take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.”
—Anonymous U.S. Analyst In 1967. Quoted in “The Uses of Anticommunism,” vol. 21, published in The Socialist Register (1985)