Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/rzbaoshp · submitted 1997
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.
tiny.ag/5nmog9yu · submitted 1997
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/czhkruer · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
tiny.ag/m9k0otpw · submitted 1997
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell, 1984, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/s0wufote · submitted 1997
He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
tiny.ag/3ygthmd0 · submitted 1997
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
tiny.ag/xyjkqvgn · submitted 1997
Politician: From the Greek "poly" ("many") and the French "tête" ("head" or "face," as in "tête-à -tête": head to head or face to face). Hence "polytetien," a person of two or more faces.
tiny.ag/zlqsqb5b · submitted 1997
Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.
tiny.ag/0ssbygzn · submitted 1997
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
tiny.ag/w06shyav · submitted 1997
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.
tiny.ag/3hmwb2tb · submitted 1997
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
tiny.ag/hjlqxeds · submitted 1997
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Christian Nevell Bovee, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/k0emebpg · 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/zcjracxo · submitted 1997
Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/vkpbru1q · submitted 1997
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, "patriotism" is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.
tiny.ag/sp9ytcxh · submitted 1997
Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/16qnix2l · submitted 1997
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
tiny.ag/7pr2vmql · submitted 1998 by Edward Wayne Blakeman
Nowadays it's not as important for voters to know what a politician has done as what he or she hasn't done.
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.
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