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Law and Politics
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# · Not So Good (45 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
# · Not So Good (35 ratings) · submitted 1999
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not the opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed the same kind.
# · Not So Good (25 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1999 by Michael A. Loduha
When skunks duel, wind direction is everything.
Michael A. Loduha, (on environmental factors in legal cases vs. the attorneys' skills; from a lecture series), in Law and Politics
# · Not So Good (47 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics and War and Peace
The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Voters are people who have the God-given right to decide who will waste their money for them.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999) ·
"Political economy" is a phrase consisting of two incompatible words.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
In politics people work hard to get a job and do little after they get it.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
A political machine is a united minority working against a divided majority.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
A political campaign starts when a politician stops working and goes about making speeches about all the work he intends to do.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valéry, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Law and Politics
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell, 1984, in Law and Politics
1984 (paperback)# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
Beyond Good and Evil (paperback)# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Those who rule the symbols rule us.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Law and Politics
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
# · Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997 by James Menzies (updated 1999)
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
Mein Kampf (paperback)# · Not So Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Edouard Herriot, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.
Jeffrey Miller, Naked Promises (Lord Evershed), in Law and Politics
# · Not So Good (14 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Felton Davis, Jr.
If half the lawyers would become plumbers, two of man's biggest problems would be solved.
Felton Davis, Jr., "Reflections on the Lake," published in The Gainesville Times (GA), in Law and Politics
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