People will stand for hardship from their rulers but not for insult.
Oct 042013
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
Sep 202013
There are always and everywhere two political parties: the Ins and the Outs. The rest is advertising.
Sep 192013
The people never means quite all of them.
Aug 302013
No one wants equality except with his betters.
Aug 292013
Those who attack the status quo on the grounds that nothing could be worse are usually proposing something worse.
Aug 092013
The revolutionary treats the oppressed as the defense lawyer treats the client: under no circumstances are they to speak for themselves.
Jul 302013
Revolution is seeded by abuse and watered by reform.
Jul 092013
The incorruptible politician merely prefers power to money.
Jun 192013
The less you are contradicted, the stupider you become. The more powerful you become, the less you are contradicted.
May 012013
Many privileges are granted on the implied condition that they will not be exercised.