Law and Politics
163 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/c3fgjq70 · ★★☆☆ Fair (73 ratings) · submitted 1997
Justice is incidental to law and order.
tiny.ag/v1p3a7wp · ★★☆☆ Fair (177 ratings) · submitted 1997
Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
Zechariah Chafee, "Freedom of Speech in Wartime", Harvard Law Review, vol. 32, pp. 932–957 (1919), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/xu5z217a · ★★☆☆ Fair (299 ratings) · submitted 1997
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
tiny.ag/b5nmoo2s · ★★☆☆ Fair (837 ratings) · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
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
tiny.ag/7graufwl · ★★☆☆ Fair (1408 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
tiny.ag/rrtq0cbj · ★★☆☆ Fair (1242 ratings) · submitted 1997
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age.
tiny.ag/otueqvds · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
tiny.ag/lgkszg2d · ★★☆☆ Fair (431 ratings) · submitted 1997
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
tiny.ag/cme83vbu · ★★☆☆ Fair (364 ratings) · 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/r3qhocip · ★★☆☆ Fair (917 ratings) · submitted 1997
Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.
tiny.ag/qe9sruc8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (164 ratings) · submitted 1997
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
tiny.ag/nbd9g5v4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
tiny.ag/6tyr94xs · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
tiny.ag/yqgp7fad · ★★☆☆ Fair (2924 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1058 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (900 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
tiny.ag/lctsfa7d · ★★☆☆ Fair (1214 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/mb7skahf · ★★☆☆ Fair (276 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.
tiny.ag/svgptnqb · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
tiny.ag/x8mhqa3j · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?
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