"Competition is merely the absence of oppression." — Frederic Bastiat

"Competition is merely the absence of oppression."

— Frederic Bastiat

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86 Quotes by Frederic Bastiat

Frederic Bastiat has 86 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the…
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for…
Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as…
When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the…
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons…

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More Absence Quotes

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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me… — Brendan Behan
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Ambrose Bierce
Life has become the ideology of its own absence. — Theodor Adorno
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent… — Elizabeth Bowen
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will… — David Bowie
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like… — Bill Bryson
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. — Samuel Butler

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