Ruling – Page 39 – Everything

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?

Oct 042013
 

People will stand for hardship from their rulers but not for insult.

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 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.