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ЗНАМЕНИТИ АФОРИЗМИ, СВЪРЗАНИ С ДЪРЖАВАТА И ПРАВОТО
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1. За СПРАВЕДЛИВОСТТА
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), speech in Washington D.C., 1865
"Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage."
Agesilaus the Second
"The sword of justice has no scabbard."
Antione De Riveral
"It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered."
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
"Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace."
Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due."
Domitus Ulpian (100 AD - 228 AD)
"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive."
Earl Warren (1891 - 1974)
"Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed."
Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
"Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness."
Henri-Frйdйric Amiel
"If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice."
Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)
"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
"The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them."
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."
Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
"Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws."
Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939)
"Justice delayed, is justice denied."
William Gladstone (1809 - 1898)
2. За ЗАКОНИТЕ
"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
"Good laws have their origins in bad morals."
Ambrosius Macrobius
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
"Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice."
Arcesilaus
"Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos."
Archbishop Ireland
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
"I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
"Law is mind without reason."
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
"Law is order, and good law is good order."
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
"A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey."
Chaim Weizmann (1874 - 1952)
"In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law."
Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
"Law stands mute in the midst of arms."
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Pro Milone
"The people's good is the highest law."
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Legibus
"The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong."
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
"The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)"
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
"It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others."
Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive."
Earl Warren (1891 - 1974)
"Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings."
Felix Frankfurter (1882 - 1965)
"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."
Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
"What power has law where only money rules."
Gaius Petronius (~66 AD)
"The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it."
Glaser and Way
"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence."
Henry Brougham (1778 - 1868)
"Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him."
John Selden (1584 - 1654)
"The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be."
Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
"Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made."
Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
3. За ДЪРЖАВНОТО УПРАВЛЕНИЕ
"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
"For every action there is an equal and opposite government program."
Bob Wells
"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."
Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)
"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."
Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California
"You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature."
George W. Bush, Speech on May 17, 2002
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office."
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."
Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - )
"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."
Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
"So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 12, 1936
"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
Tom Robbins (1936 - )
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Saturday Review, Aug. 25, 1962
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."
William H. Borah
4. За ДЕМОКРАЦИЯТА
"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear."
Alan Corenk
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
"The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid."
Art Spander
"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."
Clement Atlee
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time."
E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame."
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
"Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them."
Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
"In democracy its your vote that counts.; In feudalism its your count that votes."
Mogens Jallberg
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 11, 1947
"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."
Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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