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Quotes from Economic Sophisms — Frédéric Bastiat

1801–1850 France

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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.

Economic Sophisms (1845)

It is a rather singular argument to maintain that, because an abuse which has been permitted a temporary existence, cannot be corrected without wounding the interests of those who have profited by it, it ought, therefore, to claim perpetual duration.

Economic Sophisms (1845)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frédéric Bastiat (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.