Slavery, Protection, And Monopoly Find Defenders, Not

If You Wish To Prosper, Let Your Customer Prosper. When People Have Learned This Lesson, Everyone Will Seek His Individual Welfare In The General Welfare. Then Jealousies Between Man And Man, City And City, Province And Province, Nation And Nation, Will No Longer Trouble The World.

When Plunder Becomes A Way Of Life, Men Create For Themselves A Legal System That Authorizes It And A Moral Code That Glorifies It.

It Is Impossible To Introduce Into Society A Greater Change And A Greater Evil Than This: The Conversion Of The Law Into An Instrument Of Plunder.

Thus, If There Exists A Law Which Sanctions Slavery Or Monopoly, Oppression Or Robbery, In Any Form Whatever, It Must Not Even Be Mentioned. For How Can It Be Mentioned Without Damaging The Respect Which It Inspires? Still Further, Morality And Political Economy Must Be Taught From The Point Of View Of This Law; From The Supposition That It Must Be A Just Law Merely Because It Is A Law. Another Effect Of This Tragic Perversion Of The Law Is That It Gives An Exaggerated Importance To Political Passions And Conflicts, And To Politics In General.

It's Always Tempting To Do Good At Someone Else's Expense