Economic Quote by Frederic Bastiat

Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility.

— David Brooks

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice.

— 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

“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

The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

— 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…

— Frederick 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

“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

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

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

“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

“I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be…

— Frédéric Bastiat