Frederic Bastiat Quotes About Labor

Quotes about: Labor

• Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding, without the state intervening otherwise than by its protective action; this is what is meant by liberty

  Frederic Bastiat

  Exercise, Understanding, Liberty

• Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Injustice, Organize

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

• Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Pain, Men, Doe

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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

• Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Pain, Men, Law

  "La Loi (The Law)". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

• Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Encouragement, Jobs, School

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

• I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical; whether it affects well-being, morality, equality, right, justice, progress, responsibility, property, labor, exchange, capital, wages, taxes, population, credit, or Government; at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing—the solution of the social problem is in liberty.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Religious, Believe, Philosophical

  Frederic Bastiat (2017). “The Law”, p.39, Lulu.com

• There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Special, Progress, Tools

• Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Men, Wealth, Proportion

• The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for other jobs.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Jobs, Men, Creation

• And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Heart, Names, Liberty

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

• When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Doe, Painful, Plunder

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Progress, Would Be, Use

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.7, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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