"Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal."

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Source : Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

Frederic Bastiat

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“Governments are not always right.”
“These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.”
“You should not confuse your career with your life.”
“Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.”

Source : George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.398, Oxford University Press on Demand
“I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.”

Source : "The lady's not a tramp" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2001.
“AlwaysÂ persevere, always have a great perspective, and always have great purpose in your life”
“I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.”
“When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.”

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