Law and Politics

A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up "with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got."

 Lord Greene, in  Altruism and Cynicism and  Law and Politics

There exists among humans no natural authority, only that established for convenience.

 John Teeple, in  Law and Politics

If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.

 A. K. Griffin, in  Law and Politics

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

Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.

 Karl Marx, in  Law and Politics and  Wisdom and Ignorance

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

 Bertolt Brecht, in  Law and Politics

It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.

 M. Grundler, in  Law and Politics

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

 George Orwell, 1984, in  Law and Politics

Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it.

 Unknown, in  Law and Politics

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

 Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in  Altruism and Cynicism and  Law and Politics

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not the opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed the same kind.

 George Bernard, in  Law and Politics and  Life and Death

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Law and Politics and  Vice and Virtue

When skunks duel, wind direction is everything.

 Michael A. Loduha, (on environmental factors in legal cases vs. the attorneys' skills; from a lecture series), in  Law and Politics

Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  Law and Politics and  War and Peace

"Political economy" is a phrase consisting of two incompatible words.

 Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in  Law and Politics

In politics people work hard to get a job and do little after they get it.

 Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in  Law and Politics

A political machine is a united minority working against a divided majority.

 Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in  Law and Politics

A political campaign starts when a politician stops working and goes about making speeches about all the work he intends to do.

 Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in  Law and Politics

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

 Paul Valéry, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in  Law and Politics

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

 William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in  Law and Politics