Legal Plunder Bastiat Quotes

#1. I want to remember that the sky is so gorgeously large, I feel stranded beneath it.

Anis Mojgani

#2. Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people.

Bryant McGill

#3. For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.

Dennis Prager

#4. Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness and love are heard by our ever-alert, impressionable children.

Marvin J. Ashton

#5. In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.

Yayoi Kusama

#6. I stick to lots of protein and veggies and try not to eat so many carbs, even though carbs are my favorite. I eat healthy things like quinoa, and I add fresh juices to my diet to get extra vitamins.

Martha Hunt

#7. Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

Seneca The Younger

#8. No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).

Frederic Bastiat

#9. There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

Frederic Bastiat

#10. I love you. Every dark and light piece of you.

Alessandra Torre

#11. Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy.

Frederic Bastiat

#12. 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.

Frederic Bastiat

#13. The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

Frederic Bastiat

#14. Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

Frederic Bastiat

#15. The book that I shall make people read
is the book of the heart,
which holds the key
to the mystery of life

Meher Baba

#16. This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

Frederic Bastiat