Frasi di Frédéric Bastiat

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“Il risultato naturale del meccanismo sociale è una elevazione costante del livello fisico, intellettuale e morale per tutte le classi, con una tendenza all'uguaglianza.”

“Il profitto di uno è il profitto dell'altro.”

“Le scienze hanno una crescita come le piante.”

“Lo Stato è la grande entità fittizia attraverso la quale ognuno cerca di vivere a spese di tutti gli altri.”

“Se su di un confine non passano le merci, vi passeranno i cannoni.”

“Tutti vogliono vivere a spese dello Stato. Dimenticano che lo Stato vive a spese di tutti.”

“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.”

“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”