Law Quote by Frédéric Bastiat

The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived 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

“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

“The law perverted! The law — and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation — the law, I say, not only…

— 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

“Another effect of this deplorable perversion of the law is, that it gives to human passions and to political struggles, and, in general, to…

— Frédéric Bastiat

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

— Dorothy Thompson

“Legalism is concerned simply with external conformity and is blind to internal motivation.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

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

— Jonathan Swift

“(...) personal prejudice and financial greed are the two great evils that threaten courts of law, and once they get the upper hand they…

— Thomas More

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

— Rebecca MacKinnon