Frederic Bastiat Quotes

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

And you shall take no bribe; for the bribe blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous:

As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort—as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

A … trial in Cambodia cannot be completely impartial, because there is too much corruption.

Do not take bribes, for they blind the clear-eyed and upset the pleas of the just.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.

The Court is corrupt: The fields are overgrown with weeds; the granaries are empty. Yet there are those dressed in fineries, With swords at their sides: Filled with food and drink, Possessed of too much wealth. This is called "Taking the lead in robbery.

… ‘great men’, will dally with all rights, in order to smuggle a fortune at ‘one fell swoop’; mortgage Texas, possess Oregon, and claim all the unsettled regions of the world for hunting and trapping; and should an humble, honest man, red, black, or white, exhibit a better title, these gentry have only to clothe the judge with richer ermine, and spangle the lawyer's finger with finer rings, to have the judgment of his peers, and the honor of his lords as a pattern of honesty, virtue, and humanity, while the motto hangs on his nation's escutcheon: ‘Every man has his price!’ …. reform this nation.

The highest law is often the greatest wrong..

The chief agent responsible for promoting the passions at the expense of justice turns out to be wealth.

In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together.

There’s a lot of money to be made in unfairness.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' is empty rhetoric.

So okay, the world through my eyes, what is that world? Well, I see a lot of dirty stuff, and I see a lot of dumb stuff.

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.