Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/lqgxtc5y · submitted 1997
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
tiny.ag/fjegbeuo · submitted 1997
I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi, (when asked what he thought of Western civilization), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/yqgp7fad · submitted 1997
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
tiny.ag/6tyr94xs · submitted 1997
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
tiny.ag/nbd9g5v4 · submitted 1997
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
tiny.ag/qe9sruc8 · submitted 1997
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
tiny.ag/r3qhocip · submitted 1997
Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.
tiny.ag/rrtq0cbj · submitted 1997
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age.
tiny.ag/otueqvds · submitted 1997
A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
tiny.ag/lgkszg2d · submitted 1997
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
tiny.ag/hjlqxeds · submitted 1997
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Christian Nevell Bovee, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/16qnix2l · submitted 1997
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
tiny.ag/sp9ytcxh · submitted 1997
Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/vkpbru1q · submitted 1997
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, "patriotism" is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.
tiny.ag/t7gxzovf · submitted 1997
If voting should change anything, there would be a law against it.
tiny.ag/1kbmhsw6 · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/cme83vbu · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
I'm left on the right issues and right on what's left. Now that's an issue I left right in front of you to debate.
tiny.ag/z8yeojw9 · submitted 1997
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
tiny.ag/otl52twf · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
Benito Mussolini, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dgoltuy5 · submitted 1997
Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.
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