Nature Quotes by Frederic Bastiat

9 Nature quotes by Frederic Bastiat

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Frederic Bastiat’s nature snippets reveal his belief in natural order and liberty, using the outdoors as a metaphor for broader social principles.

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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

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Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to…

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[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production;…

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“Is it to be supposed that Nature has not bestowed upon me sufficient imagination to invent a Utopia too? Is it for…

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We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here…

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The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are…

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If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is…

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But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are…

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But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it.…

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The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

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The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

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If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that…

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Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the…

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Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

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Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

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Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the…

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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

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There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons…

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I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or…

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The balance of trade is an article of faith.

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There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming…

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“And now, after having vainly inflicted upon the social body so many systems, let them end where they ought to have begun—reject all systems,…

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When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages…

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There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good…

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