Some quotes that changed how I see the world and the state

in #philosophy7 years ago

Voltaire

“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”

“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.”

“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”

“Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.”

Frédéric Bastiat

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”

“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”
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