“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.”
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“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
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“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”
― The Law
― The Law
“The clod rejects as too difficult whatever isn't cloddish.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
“to pursue your own interests is prudent; to pursue the public interest as well is pious; but to pursue your own pleasure by depriving others of theirs is unjust.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
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