Quote by Jonathan Swift
War! that mad game the world so loves to play. - Jonathan Swift

War! that mad game the world so loves to play. – Jonathan Swift

Other quotes by Jonathan Swift

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. – Jonathan Swift

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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. – Jonathan Swift

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Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others. – Daisaku Ikeda

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War. The dark time of valour, loss and hope where a man is controlled by his gun; where a gun is controlled by his hatred. Completely uncontrollable. – DanielHa

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War

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. – Thomas Jefferson

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We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we dont control that. If politicians want a war we dont control that. Acts of terrorism, we cant control them. – will.i.am

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In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic. – Graham Swift

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. – T. S. Eliot

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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. – Seamus Heaney

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For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, its where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week. – John Sununu

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