Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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101–120 (163)
tiny.ag/zxzulgcs · ★★☆☆ Fair (368 ratings) · submitted 1997
We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
tiny.ag/ebp3wveo · ★★☆☆ Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
tiny.ag/yvxqb7s2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1183 ratings) · submitted 1999
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.
tiny.ag/5agdml7e · ★★☆☆ Fair (247 ratings) · submitted 1997
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Yogi Berra, (on Frenchmen in American politics), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/lvxaopme · ★★☆☆ Fair (463 ratings) · submitted 1997
Accuse: To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged them.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/fiog0z7u · ★★☆☆ Fair (1221 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/zcjracxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (259 ratings) · submitted 1997
Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics
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/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/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.
tiny.ag/ut6ks243 · ★★☆☆ Fair (805 ratings) · submitted 1997
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
tiny.ag/8zhrldax · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
tiny.ag/yosfdtrk · ★★☆☆ Fair (172 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
tiny.ag/tg5j4hni · ★★☆☆ Fair (157 ratings) · submitted 1997
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
tiny.ag/tislbrzv · ★★☆☆ Fair (717 ratings) · submitted 1997
This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.
Jeffrey Miller, Naked Promises (Lord Evershed), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/dgoltuy5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (81 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.
tiny.ag/yx6rgpvi · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
tiny.ag/otl52twf · ★★☆☆ Fair (656 ratings) · 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
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