A Quote by Frederic Bastiat

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

Frederic Bastiat

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Frederic Bastiat
French - Economist
June 30, 1801 - December 24, 1850

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves

Thomas Sowell

'Intensity' is a good word. It's like ambition, if it's not ambition at expense of someone else.

Thom Tillis

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

R. K. Milholland

After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.

Albert Camus

It’s a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody’s expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone’s expense.

Richard Kalvar

People are always pleased to indulge their religiosity when it allows them to stand in judgment of someone else, licenses them to feel superior to someone else, tells them they are more righteous than someone else. They are less enthusiastic when religiosity demands that they be compassionate to someone else. That they show charity, service and mercy to everyone else.

Leonard Pitts

I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.

John Wells

Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.

Boy George

I think as a woman it's in our nature to nurture someone else. Sometimes at the expense of ourselves.

Emilia Clarke

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

Jodi Picoult

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

Bruce Henderson

When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?

Jenny Han

It's always tempting to cast someone you enjoy being with. You've got to hang out with these people for a number of months.

Ethan Coen

Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.

Veronica Roth

Personally, I think neutral is just another way of saving your own ass at the expense of someone else's.

Laurell K. Hamilton

That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.

Jodi Picoult

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