Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/ebp3wveo · ★★☆☆ Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
tiny.ag/yvxqb7s2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1183 ratings) · 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/5agdml7e · ★★☆☆ Fair (247 ratings) · submitted 1997
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Yogi Berra, (on Frenchmen in American politics), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/lvxaopme · ★★☆☆ Fair (463 ratings) · submitted 1997
Accuse: To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged them.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/fiog0z7u · ★★☆☆ Fair (1221 ratings) · submitted 1997
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics and War and Peace
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/bjyoe8up · ★★☆☆ Fair (275 ratings) · submitted 1997
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
tiny.ag/wsz5lkjo · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
tiny.ag/k5imoxc2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1997
Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.
tiny.ag/bmuf1k6g · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · submitted 1997
People do not resist change -- they resist being changed.
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/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/yfwenbfh · ★★☆☆ Fair (225 ratings) · submitted 1997
Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth -- communism is the equal distribution of poverty.
tiny.ag/z8yeojw9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
tiny.ag/t7gxzovf · ★★☆☆ Fair (215 ratings) · submitted 1997
If voting should change anything, there would be a law against it.
tiny.ag/1kbmhsw6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (707 ratings) · submitted 1997
In politics people work hard to get a job and do little after they get it.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/auqhpii7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (235 ratings) · submitted 1997
A person who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
tiny.ag/joubc6r8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (733 ratings) · submitted 1997
A political campaign starts when a politician stops working and goes about making speeches about all the work he intends to do.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/ho6hzfu5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (642 ratings) · submitted 1997
A political machine is a united minority working against a divided majority.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/sl9dtwjl · ★★☆☆ Fair (204 ratings) · submitted 1997
A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday.
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