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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