Competition is merely the absence of oppression.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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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.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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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.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure.
~ Jeremy Bentham
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The internet is a network of networks. Internet exchanges are the portals where lots of those networks are linked to each other; switches connect devices within these networks. As the internet has grown, exchanges and their switches have become more numerous and vastly more impressive, allowing levels of performance that would have been unthinkable using old technology.
~ Abby Bertics via The Economist
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