Houyhnhnms Quotes

“In answer to which, I assured his honor that in all points out of their [lawyers'] own trade, they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning; and equally disposed to pervert the general reason of mankind, in every other subject of discourse as in that of their own profession.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

“he was at a loss how it should come to pass, that the law, which was intended for every man’s preservation, should be any man’s ruin”
― Jonathan Swift, Guiliver's Travels