Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

"When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating."

'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.'

'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.'

'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.'
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?"
Frederic Bastiat


"Laugh and the world laughs with you ,snore and you sleep alone."
Anthony Burgess