Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/r3qhocip · submitted 1997
Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.
tiny.ag/qe9sruc8 · submitted 1997
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
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/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/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/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/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/16qnix2l · submitted 1997
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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/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/o2nztemh · submitted 1997
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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/eqxg4ask · submitted 1997
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.
tiny.ag/py1kf0oz · submitted 1997
Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
tiny.ag/ihluxzog · submitted 1997
Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it.
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