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“Abolish this law without delay; it is not merely an iniquity—it is a fertile source of iniquities, for it invites reprisals; and if you do not take care, the exceptional case will extend, multiply, and become systematic". Bastiat is essentially saying to eradicate the laws that favor the one percent otherwise, people will start to uprise. I'm amazed by this quote because it can apply to any era in history (F).
— Feb 05, 2016 08:33PM
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“...at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing—the solution of the social problem is in liberty.” (F)
— Feb 21, 2016 08:52PM
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“Thus, liberty is power. In what does this power consist? In possessing education and tools of labor. Who is to give education and tools of labor? Society, who owes them” Bastiat in this essay, has redundantly used rhetorical questions, and even though at times it seems as if he is overusing them, he always manages to tie the questions together with a well developed response. (F)
— Feb 15, 2016 08:29PM
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“And what is liberty, whose name can make every heart beat, and which can agitate the world, but the union of all liberties, the liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of movement, of labor".
I really like this quote because it engages the reader to think critically because of the well placed rhetorical question. Along with that, the sheer complexity of this sentence is just amazing
— Feb 15, 2016 08:27PM
I really like this quote because it engages the reader to think critically because of the well placed rhetorical question. Along with that, the sheer complexity of this sentence is just amazing
Kumar
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At this point in the book, Bastiat shows a recurring theme of what the benefits of socialism really are; a better healthcare, better education, and most importantly, no upper class slowly destroying the middle and lower classes (T)
— Feb 15, 2016 08:05PM
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After Bastiat lays out the foundation of his argument in the first 10 pages of this book, he starts developing a connection with the readers by asking only a series of rhetorical questions in a single paragraph. I think that this was a great strategy by Bastiat because he primarily wrote this essay/book for the commoners of France, and to teach them the general idea of how the law should be represented. (W)
— Feb 05, 2016 08:25PM
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In the beginning of this essay, Bastiat displays a great work of rhetoric by introducing what actually makes man create laws. In the first few paragraph he stresses multiple times that man has the right to: personality, liberty, and property, and those qualities are the foundation to why laws must exist. The structure of the beginning of the book is also great because it is mainly short and concise paragraphs.
— Feb 04, 2016 01:40PM
