Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/d7wzdup5 · submitted 1997
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
tiny.ag/qk3eo0wc · submitted 1997
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
tiny.ag/atvevbqc · submitted 1997
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
tiny.ag/gcsjx97v · submitted 1997
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.
tiny.ag/r1fscizb · submitted 1997
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
tiny.ag/vruohmzb · 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/mnbumpv1 · submitted 1997
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
tiny.ag/y2yzkpwq · submitted 1997
It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society.
tiny.ag/4rllto8y · submitted 1999 by Felton Davis, Jr.
If half the lawyers would become plumbers, two of man's biggest problems would be solved.
Felton Davis, Jr., "Reflections on the Lake," published in The Gainesville Times (GA), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/tislbrzv · 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/tg5j4hni · 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/yosfdtrk · submitted 1997
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
tiny.ag/8zhrldax · submitted 1997
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
tiny.ag/h8oiwuf7 · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
tiny.ag/sneiqva0 · submitted 1997
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
tiny.ag/m6lj8yot · submitted 1997
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
tiny.ag/jy8gye2w · submitted 1997
Those who rule the symbols rule us.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/yvxqb7s2 · 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/k0emebpg · submitted 2011 by peter
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
tiny.ag/ut6ks243 · submitted 1997
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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