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The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy. Let us speak of the first.
— Frederic Bastiat
Indeed, a more astounding fact, in the heart of society, cannot be conceived than this: That law should have become an instrument of injustice.
— Frederic Bastiat
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
Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.
— Frederic Bastiat
Good things never last, bad things never die.
— John Darnielle
Despoilers obey the Malthusian law; they multiply with the means of existence, and the means of existence of knaves is the credulity of their dupes.
— Frederic Bastiat
The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.
— Frederic Bastiat
The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.
— Frederic Bastiat
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
— Frederic Bastiat
A wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.
— E. E. Cummings
Law and Charity Are Not the Same
— Frederic Bastiat
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
— Frederic Bastiat
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.
— Frederic Bastiat
It's not the hand you're dealt that matters. It's how you play the cards.
— Karen Marie Moning
I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed ...
— Frederic Bastiat
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— Robin Hobb