Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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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/5sv6lujm · submitted 1998
Every nation has the government it deserves.
tiny.ag/bv7l94mp · submitted 1997
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
tiny.ag/vyciqzog · submitted 1997
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
tiny.ag/h8oiwuf7 · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
tiny.ag/8zhrldax · submitted 1997
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
tiny.ag/lanadgxk · submitted 1997
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
tiny.ag/2hab70fi · 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/ig3zfjp4 · submitted 1997
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
tiny.ag/mnbumpv1 · submitted 1997
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
tiny.ag/y2yzkpwq · 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/bncpxtdu · 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 · 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/gu6tloek · 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
tiny.ag/e97mpzt2 · submitted 1997
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
tiny.ag/qmh4jgbw · submitted 1997
Vote early and vote often.
tiny.ag/gcsjx97v · submitted 1997
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.
tiny.ag/r1fscizb · submitted 1997
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
tiny.ag/vruohmzb · 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 · submitted 1997
Those who rule the symbols rule us.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Law and Politics
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