Causes Quote by Frederic Bastiat

“The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes—bare egotism and false philanthropy.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

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

The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned…

— Frederic Bastiat

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

— Frederic Bastiat

“Legal plunder has two roots: one of them, as we have already seen, is in human egotism; the other is in false philanthropy. Before”

— Frédéric Bastiat

Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them

— Jonathan Swift

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of…

— Saul Alinsky

“I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives…

— Robert H. Jackson

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

— Frederic Bastiat

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice…

— Kurt Huber

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument…

— Frederic Bastiat

It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most of the…

— Thurman Arnold