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Baker’s Laws of Progress
Russell Baker
1. Progress is what people who are planning to do something really terrible almost always justify themselves on the grounds of.
2. Usually terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all but just terrible things.
Belli’s Law
Melvin Belli
There is never a deed so foul that something couldn’t be said for the guy; that’s why there are lawyers.
Bentham’s Law
Jeremy Bentham
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Brecht’s Law
Bertolt Brecht
Eats first, morals after.
Burke’s Law
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Carlyle’s Second Law
Thomas Carlyle
Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty! The second duty will already have become clearer.
Coleridge’s Law of Moral Polarity
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When the maximum of one tendency has been attained there is no gradual decrease but a direct transition to its minimum till the opposite tendency has attained its maximum.
Dante’s Law
Dante Alighieri
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Eban’s Law
Abba Eban
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Goldsmith’s Law
Oliver Goldsmith
Haldeman’s Law
H. R. 'Bob' Haldeman
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it’s going to be very tough to get it back in.
Kant’s Categorical Imperative
Emanuel Kant
Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time wish that it should become a universal law.
Lansky’s Insight
Meyer Lansky
Some people never learn to be good. One quarter of us is good. Three quarters is bad. That’s a tough fight, three against one.
Leopold’s First Law
Aldo Leopold
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Marx’s Third Law
Karl Marx
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Maugham’s Law
W. Somerset Maugham
You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
Nehru’s Law
Jawaharlal Nehru
Even in politics, an evil action has evil consequences. That, I believe, is the law of Nature as precise as any law of physics or chemistry.
O’Malley’s Observation
Austin O'Malley
When there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.
Prior’s Precept
Matthew Prior
The end must justify the means.
Russell’s Conclusion
Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatsoever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Shaw’s Maxims
George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. See also Confucius’s Law.
He who can does. He who cannot teaches. (H. L. Mencken may well have said much the same thing. Arthur Block credits him with the genderless “Those who can do. Those who cannot teach” in The Complete Murphy’s Law [1991]. Bloch also cites without further details a corollary that he terms ‘Martin’s Extension’: Those who cannot teach administrate.)
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on unreasonable men.
Decency is Indecency’s conspiracy of silence.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. See also Weinberg’s Credo.
Staples’s First Law of the Universe
Brent Staples
Evil and stupidity are randomly distributed.
Szasz’s Rules
Thomas Szasz
1. Two wrongs don’t make a right but they make a good excuse.
2. If you talk to God you are praying; if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.
2. If you talk to God you are praying; if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.
The Rockefeller Principle
Anon
Never do anything you wouldn’t be caught dead doing.
Thucydides’s Law of Peace and War
Thucydides
In times of peace and prosperity, cities and individuals alike follow higher standards because they are not forced into a situation where they have to do what they do not want to do. But war is a stern teacher; in depriving them of the power of easily satisfying their wants it brings most people’s minds down to the level of their actual circumstances.
Torquemada’s Law
Tomás de Torquemada
When you are right you have a moral duty to impose your will upon anyone who disagrees with you.
Alinsky’s Law
Saul Alinsky
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.
Buchwald’s Law
Art Buchwald
As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.
Emerson’s Insight
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we call sin in others is experimentation for us.
Res ipsa loquitur
Editor
The ex-councillor from Blackburn, now (and for the time being still) Lord Taylor, may not be familiar with the legal concept ‘res ipsa loquitur’, despite all his ermine . It means ‘things speak for themselves’. However much he huffs and puffs about the injustice of the Sunday Times’s allegations, the recordings of his conversation with the newspaper’s reporters make everything quite clear. One hundred thousand pounds is, apparently, cheap at the price for his services. If ever there was a modern example of Thoreau’s Ruling this is it. The ignoble Lord should be stripped of his title and forced to repay his immoral earnings to the taxpayer.
Truman’s Third Law
Harry S. Truman
Nobody, not even the President of the United States, can approach too close to a skunk in skunk territory and expect to get anything out of it except a bad smell.
Silence gives consent.
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