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
Edmund Burke
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
Silence gives consent.
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