When plunder become a way of life for a group of men living in society,
they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorises it,
and a moral code that glorifies it.
Frederic Bastiat [1801 –1850]
French economist statesman and author.
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Barnaby Drake
September 4, 2011 at 18:36
A very interesting and insightful article on Bastait in Wikipedia here;-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Nothing has changed in the last 180 years and the same fallacies are still being pushed by self-interested companies and governments.
Stephani of Rowella
September 5, 2011 at 00:32
Mmm makes me think of Tassie