Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/gt1zngj3 · submitted 1998
There exists among humans no natural authority, only that established for convenience.
tiny.ag/x9dblm0j · submitted 1997
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
tiny.ag/lkzomlnc · submitted 1997
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
tiny.ag/rzbaoshp · submitted 1997
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.
tiny.ag/5nmog9yu · submitted 1997
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/hgomu6th · submitted 1997
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/kxvl7q1s · submitted 1997
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
tiny.ag/hkxwed3k · submitted 1997
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
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/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/dgoltuy5 · submitted 1997
Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.
tiny.ag/yx6rgpvi · submitted 1997
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
tiny.ag/otl52twf · 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
tiny.ag/egbcyknm · submitted 1997
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
tiny.ag/ihlpkath · submitted 1997
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
tiny.ag/m6lj8yot · submitted 1997
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
tiny.ag/sneiqva0 · submitted 1997
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
tiny.ag/3klonk4i · submitted 1997
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
tiny.ag/raffprlg · submitted 1997
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
tiny.ag/nqhblasx · submitted 1997
It is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is equally true that the government is best which provides most.
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