Crime Quote by Frederic Bastiat

The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

— Frederic Bastiat

Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who…

— Frederic Bastiat

“Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would otherwise involve……

— Frédéric Bastiat

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice.

— Frederic Bastiat

“Plunder by force or subterfuge is called theft, larceny, burglary, swindling. Plunder under color of law can take the form of ‘economic regulation’, ‘too…

— Joseph Befumo

“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and…

— Frederick Bastiat

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves…

— Frederic Bastiat

But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and…

— Frederic Bastiat

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law,…

— Ayn Rand

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

— Frederic Bastiat

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…

— Frederic Bastiat