Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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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/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/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/2flecxec · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy, (inaugural speech, 1961), in Law and Politics and War and Peace
tiny.ag/vyciqzog · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
tiny.ag/uvkikrxz · ★★☆☆ Fair (285 ratings) · submitted 1997
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
tiny.ag/knhyutua · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · submitted 1997
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/d7wzdup5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (273 ratings) · submitted 1997
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
tiny.ag/qk3eo0wc · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
tiny.ag/atvevbqc · ★★☆☆ Fair (62 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
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/h8oiwuf7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (319 ratings) · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
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/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/8zhrldax · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
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