Law and Politics

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Law and Politics

Justice is incidental to law and order.

J. Edgar Hoover, in Law and Politics

Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

People do not resist change -- they resist being changed.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.

Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Law and Politics

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

Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger.

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

Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Unknown, 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

When the government fears the people, we have liberty. When the people fear the government, we have tyranny.

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

Heraclitus, in Law and Politics

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

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

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see Paradise as Hell; and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as Paradise.

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, in Law and Politics

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

Adolf Hitler, in Law and Politics

If voting should change anything, there would be a law against it.

Unknown, 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

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

Unknown, in Law and Politics