Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · 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 · submitted 1997
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
tiny.ag/ut6ks243 · 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/nbd9g5v4 · submitted 1997
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
tiny.ag/6tyr94xs · submitted 1997
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
tiny.ag/yqgp7fad · submitted 1997
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
tiny.ag/fjegbeuo · submitted 1997
I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi, (when asked what he thought of Western civilization), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/lqgxtc5y · submitted 1997
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
tiny.ag/7graufwl · submitted 1997
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
tiny.ag/x8mhqa3j · submitted 1997
How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?
tiny.ag/cuh1ej24 · submitted 1997
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
tiny.ag/4liye13x · submitted 1997
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
tiny.ag/b5nmoo2s · 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/xu5z217a · submitted 1997
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
tiny.ag/v1p3a7wp · submitted 1997
Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
Zechariah Chafee, "Freedom of Speech in Wartime", Harvard Law Review, vol. 32, pp. 932–957 (1919), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/c3fgjq70 · submitted 1997
Justice is incidental to law and order.
tiny.ag/o2nztemh · submitted 1997
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
tiny.ag/cme83vbu · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
I'm left on the right issues and right on what's left. Now that's an issue I left right in front of you to debate.
tiny.ag/lgkszg2d · submitted 1997
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
tiny.ag/otueqvds · submitted 1997
A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
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