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Frederic Bastiat Quotes

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

Frederic Bastiat

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: french
Birth: June 30, 1801 - December 24, 1850

Topics

Law Organizing Injustice Liberty

We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.

John Abizaid

Good Quality Government Challenges

I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'

Andrew Wyatt

Father Music Village Street Jazz Up

I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am.

John Lydon

Morning I Am Joy Prison Stillness

I thought I was gonna do Lear, but I'm gonna do Maura.

Jeffrey Tambor

Thought Gonna Lear

For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the 'masses' want dumb, simple pleasures and big media companies want to give the masses what they want.

Steven Johnson

Path Culture Simple Media Dumb Want

People fight in New Orleans about what's the best po'boy, and Domilise's always comes up. It's the best one I've ever had.

Robert Ben Garant

Best Fight People New New Orleans

My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig there, and next thing you know it's gone. It's a habit I have to stave off. I don't want to lose all my teeth.

Rufus Wainwright

Love Habit You Lose Back Know

Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.

Lucien Bourjeily

You Sometimes Censorship Used Get

You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.

Craig Bruce

Waiting Wait Worth You Which

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

Brit Marling

Art College Economics Short Acting

I don't want to write because I have to; I want to write because I want to. Sometimes, when writers write because they have to, the results are disastrous.

Petina Gappah

Results Sometimes Want Write Because

People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it's very easy.

Paz Vega

Walk Happy People Easy You Here