The #law has been perverted by influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy
#FredericBastiat
The Law

Life, #liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws
#FredericBastiat
The Law

#Datreveno #FrédéricBastiat #Ekonomiko

Je ĉi dato en 1801 naskiĝis Frédéric Bastiat, ekonomikisto, kiu inventis la ideon pri oportunkosto (t.e. la kostoj, kiujn oni cedas kiam oni elektis agon) kaj la parabolon pri la rompita fenestro. Li forte apogis la nocion pri libera merkato kaj komerco, kaj kredis ke la sola metodo por transmeti posedaĵojn inter homoj estis per leĝaj kontraktoj. https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat
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We repudiate the artificial #unity that does nothing more than deprive persons of individual responsibility
#FredericBastiat
The Law

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the #state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone
#FredericBastiat

The existence of persons and #property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety
#FredericBastiat
The Law

If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing
#FredericBastiat

#Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property
#FredericBastiat

#Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else
#FredericBastiat

Countries which enjoy the highest level of #peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs
#FredericBastiat

Is not #liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
#FredericBastiat

By virtue of exchange, one man's $prosperity is beneficial to all others
#FredericBastiat

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it
#FredericBastiat
The Law

Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking #injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice
#FredericBastiat
The Law

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable
#FredericBastiat

People overlook that the sort of dependence that results from exchange is a reciprocal dependence
#FredericBastiat

A man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder
#FredericBastiat

We repudiate the artificial unity that does nothing more than deprive persons of individual responsibility
#FredericBastiat
The Law

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed
#FredericBastiat

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone
#FredericBastiat