#Frederic bastiat quotes code
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. "If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?" Quotes tagged as 'mafia' Showing 1-30 of 272. "Justice and Fraternity", in the Journal des Economistes (1848) The suffering classes, although having the greatest claim, will not always have the greatest success." The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner. Everyone will have good reasons to prove that legal fraternity should be interpreted in this sense: "Let me have the benefits, and let others pay the costs." Everyone's effort will be directed toward snatching a scrap of fraternal privilege from the legislature. If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. Sourced quotations by the French Economist Frédéric Bastiat (1801 1850) about law, liberty and plunder - . When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the. The public treasury will be literally pillaged. Landed property, agriculture, industry, commerce, shipping, industrial companies, all will bestir themselves to claim favors from the State. Finally.we shall see the entire people transformed into petitioners. Whence does draw those resources that it is urged to dispense by way of benefits to individuals? Is it not from the individuals themselves? How, then, can these resources be increased by passing through the hands of a parasitic and voracious intermediary? Who would not like to see all these benefits flow forth upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source?. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand. that it should intervene directly to relieve all suffering, satisfy and anticipate all wants, furnish capital to all enterprises, enlightenment to all minds, balm for all wounds, asylums for all the unfortunate, and even aid to the point of shedding French blood, for all oppressed people on the face of the earth. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. " that the State owes subsistence, well-being, and education to all its citizens that it should be generous, charitable, involved in everything, devoted to everybody. "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
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