Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/ywjorl1b · ★★☆☆ Fair (394 ratings) · submitted 1997
When the government fears the people, we have liberty. When the people fear the government, we have tyranny.
tiny.ag/h54z3wxd · ★★☆☆ Fair (968 ratings) · submitted 1997
Voters are people who have the God-given right to decide who will waste their money for them.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/6e8jdhxa · ★★☆☆ Fair (226 ratings) · submitted 1997
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
tiny.ag/eqxg4ask · ★★☆☆ Fair (269 ratings) · submitted 1997
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.
tiny.ag/py1kf0oz · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
tiny.ag/ihluxzog · ★★☆☆ Fair (262 ratings) · submitted 1997
Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it.
tiny.ag/avjgt67o · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/bhsju9kv · ★★☆☆ Fair (288 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/kxvl7q1s · ★★☆☆ Fair (276 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
tiny.ag/rp6yelnf · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.
Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/4awpxubp · ★★☆☆ Fair (139 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.
tiny.ag/hgomu6th · ★★☆☆ Fair (790 ratings) · submitted 1997
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/0c4jaqsc · ★★☆☆ Fair (269 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
Oscar Ameringer, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/phtkn2xv · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
Counterfeit exists because there is such a thing as real gold.
tiny.ag/bncpxtdu · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm very critical of the U.S., but get me outside the country and all of a sudden I can't bring myself to say one nasty thing about the U.S.
tiny.ag/bmuf1k6g · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · submitted 1997
People do not resist change -- they resist being changed.
tiny.ag/k5imoxc2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1997
Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.
tiny.ag/bjyoe8up · ★★☆☆ Fair (275 ratings) · submitted 1997
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
tiny.ag/wsz5lkjo · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
tiny.ag/t7gxzovf · ★★☆☆ Fair (215 ratings) · submitted 1997
If voting should change anything, there would be a law against it.
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