Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/4awpxubp · ★★☆☆ Fair (139 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.
tiny.ag/hgomu6th · ★★☆☆ Fair (790 ratings) · submitted 1997
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/kxvl7q1s · ★★☆☆ Fair (276 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
tiny.ag/x9dblm0j · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
tiny.ag/c3jsrgej · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
tiny.ag/yxe7ui5g · ★★☆☆ Fair (109 ratings) · submitted 1997
A nation ... is just a society for hating foreigners.
tiny.ag/dnnrwvkr · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
tiny.ag/i6fve9yg · ★★☆☆ Fair (114 ratings) · submitted 1997
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
tiny.ag/mvz0j45c · ★★☆☆ Fair (162 ratings) · submitted 1997
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.
tiny.ag/r8irgp4q · ★★☆☆ Fair (134 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
tiny.ag/egbcyknm · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
tiny.ag/ihlpkath · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
tiny.ag/lkzomlnc · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
tiny.ag/rzbaoshp · ★★☆☆ Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.
tiny.ag/5nmog9yu · ★★☆☆ Fair (800 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (504 ratings) · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
tiny.ag/m9k0otpw · ★★☆☆ Fair (854 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
tiny.ag/xyjkqvgn · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · 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.
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