Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/jx4okg6p · ★★☆☆ Fair (1050 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Michael A. Loduha
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
tiny.ag/hkxwed3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
tiny.ag/5sv6lujm · ★★☆☆ Fair (154 ratings) · submitted 1998
Every nation has the government it deserves.
tiny.ag/bv7l94mp · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
tiny.ag/vyciqzog · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
tiny.ag/o2nztemh · ★★☆☆ Fair (180 ratings) · submitted 1997
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
tiny.ag/3klonk4i · ★★☆☆ Fair (181 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
tiny.ag/b5nmoo2s · ★★☆☆ Fair (837 ratings) · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
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
tiny.ag/xu5z217a · ★★☆☆ Fair (299 ratings) · submitted 1997
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
tiny.ag/gcsjx97v · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.
tiny.ag/r1fscizb · ★★☆☆ Fair (69 ratings) · submitted 1997
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
tiny.ag/vruohmzb · ★★☆☆ Fair (671 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.
Howard Koch, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/jy8gye2w · ★★☆☆ Fair (768 ratings) · submitted 1997
Those who rule the symbols rule us.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/m6lj8yot · ★★☆☆ Fair (255 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
tiny.ag/sneiqva0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
tiny.ag/4liye13x · ★★☆☆ Fair (828 ratings) · submitted 1997
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
tiny.ag/ocm1aexh · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.
Walter Goodman, All Honorable Men, 1963, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/mcsdq3k5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
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."
tiny.ag/gam5ctee · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.
tiny.ag/xenm7mq9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
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