Frederic Bastiat Quotes About Injustice

Quotes about: Injustice

• Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Mean, Men, Law

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.9, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

• Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Injustice, Organize

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

• ...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is injustice, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Justice, Liberty

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

• Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Self, Law, Liberty

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.41, Cosimo, Inc.

• Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Justice, Injustice, Absent

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.26, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

• Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property rights. If you cannot do so, then you must agree that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Peace, Freedom, Rights

• Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even the thought of revolution, of insurrection, of the slightest uprising could arise against a government whose organized force was confined only to suppressing injustice.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Simple, Government, Law

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

• It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Responsibility, Law, People

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