It’s not difficult to make politics funnier. – John Cleese, British comedian In an interview, this great comedian was asked how one would make politics funny. His answer is hilarious and one fraught with great insight and wisdom. It need not be serious and hazardous, or taken seriously because that’s
Politics have no relations to morals. – Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian diplomat It is an inexorable fact that one of the serious penalties the concerned citizenry will face when they fail to participate in everyday politics is to be ruled and governed by inferiors. The great Greek scholar Plato’s warning still
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That’s not history, that’s psychiatry. – Edward Koch, former New York mayor If political psychiatry means anything, rewriting history is outright deception that offers the fraudster a sadistically satisfying sense of feeling good simply because nobody could stop the
The independence of the judiciary is always suspect when judges are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, and not by the People. – a Native American judge In some countries the freedom of the press, speech, expression and association are celebrated on paper only as a window
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. – Julius Caesar, Roman dictator Julius Caesar on the seizure of power nuances a collusion and collision of principles. This is a perpetual banquet for thought, and certainly not a contradiction in terms.
Is there a juster justice and a more lawful law? – Max Radin, American legal scholar Article 10(1)(c) Federal Constitution (FC) is a broad-brush stroke upon the constitutional canvas expansively guaranteeing all citizens have the right to form associations while callously giving substance and meaning to liberty of the person
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not. – Abraham Verghese, American physician The world turned on the Borneo Territories when Lord Cameron Cobbold, a governor of the Bank of England, learned in plutology and aphnology, not law, headed a fact-finding
The omission of good is no less reprehensible that the commission of evil. – Plutarch, Greek philosopher Malayan legal heavyweights like Dr. Radhakrishna Ramani, Yong Shook Lin, C S Jayaswal, T Rajendra and E D Shearn were not included in or engaged by the Reid Commission in pre-Merdeka Malaya. Foreigners, untutored
An independent judiciary means little when the free market has reduced it to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder. – Arundhati Roy, Indian author Some 500 lawyers recently marched to petition the government for the much-vaunted independent judiciary. Is an independent judiciary independent of the government, or independent
Government has but a choice of evils. – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher What is the right in law for government to indulge in a choice of evils even if it created such laws? Confucius theorised that “if your desire is for good, the people will be good”. Ergo, government is
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