Frederic Bastiat Quotes About Society

Quotes about: Society

• When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Life, Money, Men

  "Economic Sophisms". Book by Frédéric Bastiat, Second series, 1848.

• Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can err; since he can err, he can suffer. I go further: He must err and he must suffer; for his starting point is ignorance, and in his ignorance he sees before him an infinite number of unknown roads, all of which save one lead to error.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Ignorance, Men, Numbers

• It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Order, Society, Reform

  "Economic Sophisms". Book by Frederic Bastiat (translated), 1845.

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