Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
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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/py1kf0oz · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
tiny.ag/yfwenbfh · ★★☆☆ Fair (225 ratings) · submitted 1997
Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth -- communism is the equal distribution of poverty.
tiny.ag/z8yeojw9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
tiny.ag/2flecxec · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy, (inaugural speech, 1961), in Law and Politics and War and Peace
tiny.ag/uvkikrxz · ★★☆☆ Fair (285 ratings) · submitted 1997
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
tiny.ag/knhyutua · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · submitted 1997
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/d7wzdup5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (273 ratings) · submitted 1997
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
tiny.ag/qk3eo0wc · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
tiny.ag/atvevbqc · ★★☆☆ Fair (62 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
tiny.ag/auqhpii7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (235 ratings) · submitted 1997
A person who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
tiny.ag/joubc6r8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (733 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/ho6hzfu5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (642 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/sl9dtwjl · ★★☆☆ Fair (204 ratings) · submitted 1997
A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday.
tiny.ag/ohswxac4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (226 ratings) · submitted 1997
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
tiny.ag/4yehmrsj · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
All extremists should be taken out and shot.
tiny.ag/mghtjmlg · ★★☆☆ Fair (221 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anarchy may not be a better form of government, but it's better than no government at all.
tiny.ag/64hrko9k · ★★☆☆ Fair (1211 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · ★★☆☆ Fair (1385 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
tiny.ag/g1wxfjbw · ★★☆☆ Fair (868 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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