Economics Quote by Frederic Bastiat Download Open image “Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.” — Frederic Bastiat ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Mass
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Understanding is becoming aware of the fact that civilization itself is in trouble and we have done it by overpopulating the planet, and by… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
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… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“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,… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
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Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
