Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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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/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/sneiqva0 · submitted 1997
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
tiny.ag/m6lj8yot · submitted 1997
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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
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/r1fscizb · submitted 1997
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
tiny.ag/gcsjx97v · submitted 1997
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.
tiny.ag/atvevbqc · submitted 1997
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
tiny.ag/qk3eo0wc · submitted 1997
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
tiny.ag/d7wzdup5 · submitted 1997
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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/64hrko9k · submitted 1997
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
tiny.ag/if7zb5ls · submitted 1997
Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
tiny.ag/uz9atcqm · submitted 1997
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
tiny.ag/kge2ejcq · submitted 1997
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
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/knhyutua · submitted 1997
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/mj0tyu5v · submitted 1998 by Lassi Kämäri
Thoughts cannot be censored.
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