Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/k0emebpg · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · 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/if7zb5ls · ★★☆☆ Fair (279 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
tiny.ag/64hrko9k · ★★☆☆ Fair (1211 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · ★★☆☆ Fair (1385 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
tiny.ag/g1wxfjbw · ★★☆☆ Fair (868 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
tiny.ag/ut6ks243 · ★★☆☆ Fair (805 ratings) · submitted 1997
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
tiny.ag/uz9atcqm · ★★☆☆ Fair (278 ratings) · submitted 1997
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
tiny.ag/o2nztemh · ★★☆☆ Fair (180 ratings) · submitted 1997
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
tiny.ag/4rllto8y · ★★☆☆ Fair (778 ratings) · 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/y2yzkpwq · ★★☆☆ Fair (809 ratings) · 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/mnbumpv1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (838 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
tiny.ag/ig3zfjp4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (484 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
tiny.ag/2hab70fi · ★★☆☆ Fair (227 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over 30 who is not a conservative has no brains.
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/lanadgxk · ★★☆☆ Fair (144 ratings) · submitted 1997
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
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/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/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/5agdml7e · ★★☆☆ Fair (247 ratings) · submitted 1997
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Yogi Berra, (on Frenchmen in American politics), in Law and Politics
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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