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Plunder Quotes by Frederic Bastiat
- Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service…
- It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of…
- No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this…
- This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder…
- There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.
- Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.
- The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a…
- Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make…
- In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of…
- Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses,…
- The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.
- And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is…
- The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic…
- As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of protecting it--then everyone…
- But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives…
- Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection,…
- The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.
- When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in Society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal…
More Plunder Quotes
- Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that… — Ambrose Bierce
- Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes… — Frederic Bastiat
- With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
- The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country,… — Frantz Fanon
- A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an… — Benjamin Franklin
- Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling… — Ernest Belfort Bax
- It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into… — Frederic Bastiat
- No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I… — Frederic Bastiat
- This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1)… — Frederic Bastiat
- There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a… — Frederic Bastiat
- I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant… — Robert Anton Wilson
- Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very… — Oliver Goldsmith