Author of quotes: Frédéric Bastiat
Woe to the peoples who do not know how to properly limit the sphere of state activity. Little by little, private enterprise will disappear from them, and with it wealth, prosperity, independence, awareness of their own dignity.
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Viker 13-03-2023 / 09:34
Competition is simply the absence of oppression.
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MegaMozg 06-11-2021 / 21:21
It is impossible to bring about a greater change and greater evil in society than this: the transformation of the law into an instrument of robbery.
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MegaMozg 06-11-2021 / 21:18
Through sharing, one person's prosperity benefits everyone else.
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MegaMozg 06-11-2021 / 21:15
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of people and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to ensure their safety.
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MegaMozg 06-11-2021 / 21:12
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has a cruel alternative: either to lose his moral sense, or to lose respect for the law.
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MegaMozg 06-11-2021 / 21:03
Slavery, protection and monopoly find defenders not only in those who benefit from them, but also in those who suffer from them.
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MegaMozg 06-11-2021 / 20:57
The most pressing need is not for the state to teach, but for it to enable education. All monopolies are abhorrent, but the monopoly on education is the worst.
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MegaMozg 06-11-2021 / 20:54
Each of us has a natural right from God to protect our personality, our freedom and our property.
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MegaMozg 06-11-2021 / 20:48
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be unskilfully defended.
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MegaMozg 06-11-2021 / 20:45
Government is a great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
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MegaMozg 06-11-2021 / 20:39
Oh, you unfortunate creatures! You who think you are so great! You who consider humanity so small! You who want to change everything! Why don't you re-educate yourself? This task would be enough.
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MegaMozg 06-11-2021 / 20:30
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.
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MegaMozg 06-11-2021 / 20:27
Life, freedom, and property do not exist because people made laws. On the contrary, it was the very fact that life, liberty, and property existed in advance that prompted people to create laws in the first place.
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MegaMozg 06-11-2021 / 20:24
Either fraternity arises spontaneously, or it does not exist. To issue a decree about this is to destroy it.
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MegaMozg 06-11-2021 / 20:21
