Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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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/m6lj8yot · ★★☆☆ Fair (255 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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/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/r1fscizb · ★★☆☆ Fair (69 ratings) · submitted 1997
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
tiny.ag/gcsjx97v · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.
tiny.ag/xu5z217a · ★★☆☆ Fair (299 ratings) · submitted 1997
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
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/svgptnqb · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
tiny.ag/lctsfa7d · ★★☆☆ Fair (1214 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/o2nztemh · ★★☆☆ Fair (180 ratings) · submitted 1997
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
tiny.ag/x8mhqa3j · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?
tiny.ag/cuh1ej24 · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
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.
tiny.ag/mb7skahf · ★★☆☆ Fair (276 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.
tiny.ag/gu6tloek · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · submitted 1997
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
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