Victims of Lawful Plunder

 

"It is in the nature of men to react against the injustice of which they are the victims. Therefore when plunder is organised by law for the profit of the classes that make it, all the plundered classes attempt to have a say in the making of the laws, by either peaceful or revolutionary means. Depending on the level of enlightenment which they have attained, these classes may set themselves two very different aims when they seek their political rights in this way; they may either wish to stop legal plunder or they may aspire to take part in it."

~ Frederic Bastiat, in translation, from his short book The Law