Nature of man Quotes by Frederic Bastiat

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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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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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“Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the…

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“Classical conventionalism shows us everywhere, behind passive society, a hidden power, under the names of Law, or Legislator (or, by a mode…

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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 a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual,…

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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 free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of…

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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 economical; whether it affects well-being, morality, equality, right, justice, progress, responsibility, property, labor, exchange, capital, wages, taxes, population, credit, or Government; at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the…

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