What is Politics?‏

[ravip]

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many'

and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes
from the poor and campaign funds from the rich,
by promising to protect each from the other.
~Oscar Am ringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."

I offered my opponents a deal:
"if they stop telling lies about me,
I will stop telling the truth about them".
~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952..

A politician is a fellow who will lay down
your life for his country.
~ Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious
a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city,
it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)

We hang petty thieves and appoint the bigger thieves to public office.
~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being
governed by those who are dumber.
~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher

Politicians are the same all over.
They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become PM;
I'm beginning to believe it.
~Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defense' by Irving Stone.

Politicians are people who,
when they see light at the end of the tunnel,
go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton, American actor/writer

What happens if a politician drowns in a river?
It's pollution.
What happens if all of them drown?
It's a solution ....!!!

[Oxx]

"We hang petty thieves and appoint the bigger thieves to public office.

~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author "

I rather suspect Aesop didn't say this. Hanging wasn't used as a method of execution, to the best of my knowledge, until mediæval times.

[Crossy]

Aesop dates somewhere around 5BC.

Book 22 of the Homeric Odyssey contains a rather graphic description of how Telemachus hanged his father’s unfaithful maidservants. The Odyssey is of course a work of fiction, but it is reasonable to see this passage as evidence for the use of hanging as a judicial punishment at that time. Current scholarship puts the Homeric poems between 750 and 600 BC.

(Google was my friend)

[Oxx]

Aesop dates somewhere around 5BC.

Book 22 of the Homeric Odyssey contains a rather graphic description of how Telemachus hanged his fathers unfaithful maidservants. The Odyssey is of course a work of fiction, but it is reasonable to see this passage as evidence for the use of hanging as a judicial punishment at that time. Current scholarship puts the Homeric poems between 750 and 600 BC.

(Google was my friend)

Pretty sure this was an extrajudicial killing (a.k.a. murder), rather than a legally sanctioned execution.